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To: old curmudgeon

https://www.aopa.org/news-and-media/all-news/2017/august/pilot/jets-vs-turboprops


43 posted on 07/27/2021 12:30:12 PM PDT by Beowulf9
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To: Beowulf9

thank you

Very informative,
and hard work.

My theory on pilot error landing accidentals, rigidly followed by me.

A landing is destined to br good or bad three miles outside the marker. At the three mile mark all checklists should be complete except for gear down. Fuel tank selection should be set at least 10 minutes earlier.

Approach speed should be exact and stable, approach flaps should be set, power settings appropriate for final approach airspeed stabilized for final approach (mentioned twice for emphasis). Lights down and on, and nothing left but to drop the gear at the outer marker and a very minor fiddling with power for wind shear.

Keeping the speed up and hotdogging it to the marker just to please some approach control that doesn’t care to space aircraft properly will lead to a bad landing.

I believe a lot of bad weather landing accidents are caused by not following the above requirements.


47 posted on 07/27/2021 1:19:21 PM PDT by old curmudgeon
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