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Switching aircraft

Jim123

DD-214 in hand and I'm gonna party like it's 1998
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The T-6 has pretty bad speed stability around 100-160 KCAS which is why it’s so easy to overspeed the flaps/gear.
I meant when it's dirty and going 120 +10/-0 inside the FAF; a few knots below 120 it turns into a pig on approach. Clean and going 200 it's great. Clean and gliding/zero thrust at 125 it's okay if you invest a slight bit of attention to keep the pipper right about 1° below the horizon (otherwise it has a phugoid that just goes on and on and on for several cycles, more than you have altitude), though it's not as stable as those other two regimes. Students have trouble with the dirty/120 regime in the landing pattern because they have to divide their attention outside the plane, their fingers in one hand haven't figured out how to really finely trim the plane yet, their fingers in the other hand haven't figured out how to quickly and consistently set the exact power setting, and their eyeballs haven't figured out the sight picture and pitch attitude using the natural horizon through the windshield.

Clean and 100-160 with only a bit of power, yep, it wanders a lot. With the flaps and gear out it's got plenty of power to overspeed those too.
 
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