This is the story of a 1 second event that taught me something important about my airplane, a SeaRey Classic amphibious flying boat. When I built the SeaRey, the flight manual and the transition trainer both said not to use full flaps for takeoffs and landings except in extreme conditions. I took that advice to heart. But recently--some 18 years later--I've been experimenting with full flaps during land landings. (That wouldn't do for water landings because it would pitch the hull nose-down, a potential disaster in a water landing.) Those experiments with full flaps have generally gone well. But not always...
The more recent SeaReys, including the factory-built version, have considerably shallower flap positions (30 degrees is more like the Classic's 20) than Classics like mine, and full flap takeoffs and landings are recommended for them.
Aside from all that, I was just having fun.
4 окт 2024