What sucks now isn't so much the speed limit, but the fact that you can't land anymore with a wingtip missing. It used to be very possible before, if you came in VERY gently, using flaps, and belly landed. You had to belly land because gear in most planes doesn't come down fast enough. If you slow down you dont' have enough lift and you crash.
I tried coming in with a Ki84 missing a wingtip sometime in the past 2 weeks. I was perfectly in control. I was trimmed, had my stick and rudder set. I was coming in perfectly on the runway. I was doing about 175. Too fast for gear or flaps. So I'm slowing down and getting low. I check my VSI and I'm only barely descending. I touch down and *POOF*
I'm in the tower. wtf!
I didn't even kill the prop, just instant *POOF*-age.
I think we've gone to the other extreme (far too sensitive, as opposed to far too forgiving). We need to be able to bring wounded birds back home.
Maybe have it so that higher ditch speeds are allowed on runays? Descent rate limits are the same but you can touch down faster because it's a hardened surface and you don't dig in and cartwheel or anything.
Whatever the idea, we need a little more than we can currently do.
