Helio HT-295 Owner's Manual page 17

For half-flap landings, an approach speed of 65 to 70 miles an
the pilot's profSciency
As
the pilot should be rmitided that the darts will
speed,
out
just 8s ha begins his
effect
should be flared or rotated out fairly-close to the ground sc)
nut
that it will develop tcm much rate-of-sink before
dawn.
Fur fu31-flap landinga
craft down in the
65 MPIi ta half-flap condition, the flaps can
into fulI-dmm position and a landtag
brought
out the slats by
hundred feet in the sir. and then to compcnsstc for
we proceed to the fullmflap landings, it is well to realize the
As
when the lift of any normal wfng is doubled by the USC
of
a flap, the drag
full-flap pssitfun nm only producelr a very steep rate-ofmdescent
but also mearm that the aircraft will have very litt*'flcmt*@
ftap
higher or lower, the altitude for beginning
speed is
out
can be higher or lower accordingly.
As
an examplt, if
is begun at the eustammy approximate thirty-feet
terrain, speed will be
matter
high the
all risk of tolling off into an uncontrolled stall or spfa, al-
though high rates of deocent can occur
used m
The best technique for full-flap landiws fftvolves
a Xfttle ~cmer-on, just sufficfent
of
flaps and to produce a relatively
by maintafnfag approximately ten to flfteca inches manifold
depending the
upon
flared out and land&d in
half-flaps,
The
.
when irastrectiag a pilot new tu the
flare-out
and
technique fcm aXowing the air-
the, best
first to
extend the f&alps to 20°
Then, when aircraft has s2uwed to
the afrcraft down to 5f) ?%PR acfrile still
partial power
increased Buzr-fold. This high
feet fram the
the aircraft i8 lmmght in at
power off
lost
very rapidly
pilot levels out, the autcmatfc slats eliminate
air conditfoa. The aircraft is then
load md
a
however, is closer
that
they will have nc)
has little @@floatVQ
touching
then
be
by touching
made
until touch-
drag at the
Consequently, %n a full-
held in a nose-
gliding
the
relatively
the
flare out
and a
above
and a high rate-of-aink
if
the maintenance
normal glide mgle. This
pressure,
pop
With
the
done
with