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Subject: Re: Europa-List: Re: What did you do with your Europa this week 2/28
From: Pete Zut <peterz@zutrasoft.com>
Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2022 19:52:38
- 3/7

That is just terrible news regarding the storms and flooding! I hope
everyone has insurance and can recover.  Where are you geographically?

WRT to the trim, the discussion was about full-down trim (as a debatable
contributory cause of that accident), not full-up.

Regards,
PeteZ

On Thu, Mar 3, 2022 at 7:09 PM Area-51 <goldsteinindustrial@gmail.com>
wrote:

> goldsteinindustrial@gmail.com>
>
> Utter devastation this week; whole region went under water for a few days
;
> Lismore airfield 4m over its highest mound; all aircraft and hangars
> destroyed;  only one airfield in the area survived the highest floods on
> record... very very sad sight driving around seeing peoples homes lining
> the streets of mud... very sad...  still no communications networks
> functioning; had to drive an hour to access the world today...
>
> So while all around was being ravaged by nature I was sitting in my
> offgrid home, unaffected other than having a wild amazonian torrent rippi
ng
> my driveway to pieces and cleaning out the creek banks, i could do nothin
g
> but sit in front of the console and play with the digital europa while
> drinking ballantines and coffee; crunching numbers; trying different thin
gs
> out around the airframe and sending it to fully developed stalls, approac
h
> configurations, ground effect, and adding leading edge slats, playing wit
h
> the engine cowl and main gear fairings. Its been a very exciting and
> focused week of flood driven isolation!!!
>
> So far the digital model=99s aerodynamic performance is aligned to 
real life
> actuals; so very happy with the results...
>
> To answer Bud=99s question raised about seeing what may happen flyi
ng with
> full up elevator trim applied, the numbers indicate this would be an
> advantage on a short field approach while maintaining a high nose attitud
e
> and enough power to remain behind the drag curve above and not below 60kt
.
> With cruise power applied the numbers indicate a controlled stall landing
;
> so rate of decent would be greater than normal and appears you would have
> no additional back travel on the control stick... it will be interesting 
to
> see what Bud=99s adventure actually delivers. The electronic brain 
could be
> totally wrong!!!
>
>
> Read this topic online here:
>
> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=506211#506211
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