hilllaguna
Registered User
Boise, ID
I am just getting ready to order instruments for my panel in my TCOW kit, and I would like to know how others have marked their airspeed indicator. Using the standard Piper manual, the VNE is 138, the top of the green arc is 110, and the flaps are 40-80. After talking with several experimental builders they have made adjustments to all this, and I get that experimental planes have their own characteristics depending on what you have built. But I tend to be one who pushes envelopes very little. For instance the flaps are significantly bigger on the TCOW kit, and I am thinking that dropping them out at 80 may not be a great idea (assuming that the flap range indicates full flaps). So I am thinking that I might white arc this at a top of 70.... While this is structurally a stronger AC than the original, keeping the 138 VNE seems prudent. But I would like input from others on how they approached this, and would just like to end this thought by stating my general perspective usually leans to the conservative in things.