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from: danmc61{at}gmail.com
date: 2008-01-19 05:34:54
subject: Re: Phrase `landing runway` vs. `cleared to land`

On Jan 18, 9:37 pm, "Robert M. Gary"  wrote:
> On Jan 18, 6:32 pm, "danm...{at}gmail.com"
 wrote:
>
>
>
> > The A56 drag coefficient is a bit more than a Lear and an F-104, so
> > it's pretty slippery.
>
> True, but its still a truck compared to a Mooney.
>
> > But I think teaching this particular method as the only way for every
> > airplane is a mistake, as it will eventually lead to overly fast
> > landings when the student climbs aboard his/her faster airplane.
>
> I think anyone who teaches either technique and claims its good for
> all aircraft is probably full of crap. I wouldn't teach flying
> approaches w/o flaps in a 767. When I'm giving training in the Mooney
> or occasionally in the A36 people are looking for type specific
> training. Showing them how its done in other aircraft (like a 767) is
> not what they are looking for. In both those aircraft I find the no
> flap approach best. Add to that that I live in a fog valley and
> finding nothing but 0/0 at mins is not uncommon so shooting approaches
> to mins in actual is not theory around here and neither are missed in
> actual.
>
> -Robert

So, you are able to:
  Apply full flaps
  Reduce speed from 90-100 K to 70 K
  Continue descending to the touchdown point
  Stabilize the approach at somewhere near 1.3-1.4 Vso
All beginning at 200' AGL?

Dan
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