Originally Posted by
ToiletDuck
Two biggest issue are airspeed and flare hight. They always come in screaming fast then want to stall at 20ft. Also watch how you handle the nose. I use to get T38 guys in there that always wanted to kill me.
This has got to be one of the funniest conversations I've read on APC in quite a while. A bunch of professional airline pilots afraid of a little 172.
Seriously though, I'd take the CFI with me too. I took a cherokee 180 up the other day after not having flown anything smaller than a light twin in a while. Funny how every little wind gust makes it feel like those small planes are going to roll inverted any minute.
ToiletDuck is absolutely right about flying the approach too. I flew way faster than I needed to on final and the flare didn't feel right at all. I used alot of runway bleeding off all that excess speed. Kind of embarrassing as there were always students parked at the approach end of the runway waiting their turn to go up. I could almost hear the instructors with them saying "now don't fly like that guy".
