The guys from the my taxi way at SZP just got back
yesterday.
John Lynch won the RV class at 212 MPH as Tracy
Saylor and Dave Anders
did not show. Klaus won his class and Steve Wolpin
came in
fourth in the Long EZ class.

Klause went 234 MPH but was outrun by a 360 cubic
inch Ford V8
direct drive in a Long EZ at 235 MPH. This guy has
been working
on this airplane for many years and finally has it
going pretty
good. The V8 block is now aluminum and it is bored
and stroked
to get the HP down around 3100 RPM or so. I did not
see it
so I don't know how he is cooling it.

According to the guys a person stalled and spun in
on base to final in
an RV and died. It is easy to be fooled at a high
altitude
airport. You are close to the ground and your ground
speed is
much faster and you might think you are not near
stall speed.
It is essential to check your airspeed from time to
time.
The other thing that happens is you tend to
overshoot the runway heading
on base to final because the radius of turn is more
at high altitude
so the tendency is to pull harder.

My technique is make a high approach and dive a bit
on the base to
final turn to keep the speed up. Then slip on final
to lose altitude
with out gaining too much speed which minimizes
float and landing
long. I think it is important that your fuel pickups
in the tanks
can deal with slips when the tanks are low on fuel.

Paul Lamar

DENIS SMITH wrote:

The best way to beat this kind of error is to install
a good angle of attack gauge (with warning) and use
it!!

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