Now I am a happy man. Round no. 5 was perfect. I took off at about 17h00 and 
climbed to 3000 ft AGL the rate was only 500 ft/min. and full throttle 2700 rpm 
@ 90 mph. At altitude I pulled the power back slowly to almost idle speed about 
1200 rpm. I kept the nose above the horizon at the same angle as taxi. When I 
reached 58 mph I ran out off elevator and the KR mashed down at 600 ft/min. I 
kept the wings level with small rudder inputs. The team suggested stall x 1.2, 
that gives me 70 mph. 

Well I did a long finals a lot flatter than yesterday and managed to fly nose 
high at 80 mph On short finals I Closed the throttle completely but the speed 
stayed at 80. In my mind a moved the threshold closer about 100m so aimed to 
land before the actual runway. Ground effect started about 3m above ground and 
I floated at a 65 mph and was in the perfect position to do a three pointer. I 
slowly reduced back pressure on the stick and the plane touched down on the 
main wheels at about 55. There was enough runway ahead not to use brakes. When 
the tail came down at about 40mph I pulled all the way back and applied brakes. 
This time "Shreg" stopped with about 25% runway left. 

Thanks to every KRnetter that gave advice and helped me to sort the landing 
roll out.

Regards 

Willie 

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