I don't think 185flier just made those transcripts up. They agree with information I've received. That information did make me scratch my head because it disagrees with what I learned in private pilot ground school.
I think that in the process of retracting t/o flaps the force on the Caravan tail switches from a down force to a lifting force. Under the wrong circumstances (low airspeed for example) the tail will stall at the point when tail force is switching from down to up. I think that's why Cessna's POH has revised the flap retraction speed significantly upward in the last 6 years.
I admit, reading "Aerodynamics for Naval Aviators" makes my eyes gloss over. A canard flies around with first a lifting horizontal stabilizer, followed by center of gravity, followed by center of wing lift. Why can't a caravan fly around with first center of wing lift, then center of gravity, then a lifting horizontal stabilizer?
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