It’s a very benign aeroplane, but like them all, it’ll still try and make a fool of you once in a while.
It’s naturally stable, but you need your feet on the rudder pedals all the time and being so light at 750lbs, it bobbles around in thermals and any wind gusts. Although it’s got a short wingspan the aileron’s are a little errr, slow, so you need to take that into account. (Ideal training for the BE-2 Matt?)
As a low-hours pilot, I’m very chary of flying it in any wind of more than 12kts. I tend to fly in the early morning or evening – they’re ideal Luton flying conditions.
Sadly I work a lot of weekends, so haven’t been able to get to many fly-ins or shows yet. Hope to fly in to Old Warden sometime this summer though.
John Allison’s immaculate Luton was G-ASXJ (see attached picture). He now owns a gorgeous Miles Gemini a little further down the hangar from me at Bicester.
Have also attached a pic (thanks to Barbara Schlussler) of our furthest flung Minor yet. VH-HEP airborne over Australia!
With that and the tiger you should be as prepared for the BE2 as you can be!!
Matt
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