REFLECTOR:A (re)volting problem

John Dibble reflector@tvbf.org
Sat, 04 Oct 2003 09:45:43 -0400


At the last Sun & Fun I spoke with a cozy 4 owner who said that he had difficulty
climbing or maintaining altitude in rain.  He installed VG's on the canard to fix
this.

John

jack davis wrote:

> >My best information is that with laminar >airfoils that have been known to
> get
> > marginal in MIST (much less ICE), by >the time your pitot system is
> threatened >at all, the rest of the airplane has long >since gone ballistic.
>
> Jim,
>
> Not sure where you get this information from, but I have flown my Velocity
> in very hard IFR many times and have never experienced "marginal" flight
> performance in MIST.
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