Right or wrong ..., but I used to teach this stuff. You should always have a place to put it down in mind. Trim for your best glide speed, then airspeed is one less thing to worry about, while you troubleshoot on your way to the inevitable full stop. Mixture, fuel , Mags, ! Not a whole lot else to mess with, and those should be automatic. Nothing flat in sight...forget about saving the airplane, and worry about saving your @&&. IE aim for between the trees, or maybe bushes instead of rocks etc.
Almost guaranteed, unless you are only flare height above the ground when you pull back, get slow and it’s not gonna end well.
I am relatively new to tundra tires or floats, but what an eye opener if you simulate an engine out and let the airspeed get behind the power curve. If I am engine out on floats, I can safely glide to a landing at 65mph, but if I get slow like say 55mph I will fall like a rock and a flare will make me fall faster. From 55 mph or less it takes + 1000’ to regain airspeed to do anything other than come down hard. Tundra tires are very similar. Also, I’ve found that trimming in a cub is different than trimming in a Cessna. The stability is different, and I’m still experimenting with it. Trim a Cessna for any airspeed, do anything you want with the power, and it will find its way back to that trimmed airspeed. Not so much with my cub.
Food for thought.
Almost guaranteed, unless you are only flare height above the ground when you pull back, get slow and it’s not gonna end well.
I am relatively new to tundra tires or floats, but what an eye opener if you simulate an engine out and let the airspeed get behind the power curve. If I am engine out on floats, I can safely glide to a landing at 65mph, but if I get slow like say 55mph I will fall like a rock and a flare will make me fall faster. From 55 mph or less it takes + 1000’ to regain airspeed to do anything other than come down hard. Tundra tires are very similar. Also, I’ve found that trimming in a cub is different than trimming in a Cessna. The stability is different, and I’m still experimenting with it. Trim a Cessna for any airspeed, do anything you want with the power, and it will find its way back to that trimmed airspeed. Not so much with my cub.
Food for thought.