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How much of the canard's effectiveness comes from the prop wash going over and under that airfoil vs the airfoil's movement though the air?
Why? Because I would like to know with an engine out how the handling characteristics change without the prop wash. Does the canard lose some, all, or no effectiveness if the engine quits, and what happens to the stall speed, approach angle/sight picture?
I am a low hour VFR PPL considering a Kenai as a first purchase, and for the reason above might consider a BRS chute (if a canard + engine out scenario is different enough from what I'd be accustomed to normally handling and seeing in the plane on landing, I might pull a chute...you thousands hours, back country, IFR, commercial guys might be able to use your experience to make this a non-issue). The wife factor and incapacitated pilot scenario has not been taken into account yet either.
Why? Because I would like to know with an engine out how the handling characteristics change without the prop wash. Does the canard lose some, all, or no effectiveness if the engine quits, and what happens to the stall speed, approach angle/sight picture?
I am a low hour VFR PPL considering a Kenai as a first purchase, and for the reason above might consider a BRS chute (if a canard + engine out scenario is different enough from what I'd be accustomed to normally handling and seeing in the plane on landing, I might pull a chute...you thousands hours, back country, IFR, commercial guys might be able to use your experience to make this a non-issue). The wife factor and incapacitated pilot scenario has not been taken into account yet either.
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