I am a new proud owner of a Cessna 182RG! :)

[N747JB]

I was reading a thread about a student who was having a difficult time in the flare and it turns out his instructor wouldn't let him trim on final. Without trimming on final you'll likely bend your firewall really quickly in a 182, 210, 206 etc. Not trimming is only making the work for yourself 10x more difficult than it needs to be. I'm a super tiny woman but I'm not a super large woman either and my CFI said that if I can land my R182 as well as I do there are no excuses for men who can't just because they refuse to trim. Trim really is the not-so-secret secret to flying HP airplanes like the 182.

I fly a 182 and a 421B, trim is your friend on both of them! As for go arounds, after I push the throttle up, my hand is awfully close to the trim wheel in either airplane.

 

[denverpilot]

I fly a 182 and a 421B, trim is your friend on both of them! As for go arounds, after I push the throttle up, my hand is awfully close to the trim wheel in either airplane.

Yeah, just go straight there on power up for a go-around. It just becomes a natural flow.

I've also seen one person "two-stage" it in a 182, with enough power to level off, trim, finish with full power, trim again... But I'm not a fan of that at all.

I don't know if he was worried about arm strength or what. He was in his 70s. And it was a very deliberate sequence. I didn't ask. It wasn't in conditions that'd put the outcome of the maneuver in question.

I filed it away in the "if my arm ever hurts real bad" box of tricks in my brain, but can't see ever pulling that particular box off the brain shelf.

 

[weilke]

Yeah, just go straight there on power up for a go-around. It just becomes a natural flow.

I've also seen one person "two-stage" it in a 182, with enough power to level off, trim, finish with full power, trim again... But I'm not a fan of that at all.

I don't know if he was worried about arm strength or what. He was in his 70s. And it was a very deliberate sequence. I didn't ask. It wasn't in conditions that'd put the outcome of the maneuver in question.

I filed it away in the "if my arm ever hurts real bad" box of tricks in my brain, but can't see ever pulling that particular box off the brain shelf.

In most HP aircraft, partial power will be plenty enough to remain level. Unless suddenly a extended construction crane appears on the runway, that two-stage go-around is imnho perfectly acceptable.

Could he have flown something with a little teenie weenie vertical stab and a big piston engine up front sometime in the past, like a P51 maybe ?

 

[CJones]

Congrats! I'm a big fan of the 182RG. Sweet flying plane.