Slow flight and the target airspeed
Asked by: Steve 3183 views Commercial Pilot, Flight Instructor, General Aviation, Private Pilot, Student Pilot
good morning,
I recently had a instructional flight with my instructor, and we performed both dirty and clean config. for slow flight.
Let us say Vso for CE172S is 40kts, and in order to do the dirty config, we need to dump all flaps and maintain slow speed possible.
Now the question is that Vso does not change regardless of altitude and when I was maintaining the consistent altitude, airspeed dropped below 40kts and aircraft was still flying without stalling; ASI indicating around 30kts.
Does anyone know how this is possible?
Steve.
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