Yes indeed, this forum is truly amazing!
I like to study the details perhaps to the point of being annoying.
Shawn, Thanks for taking comments about your book with a positive mood. I wish you could be my instructor, your book has saved me hundreds of dollars so far with tips not found anywhere else.
Nick, Your response, debunking the long held views, is always a pleasure.
Sounds like you are saying the 12 degree approach is actually a very steep approach.
As a fixed wing pilot, the 12 degree approach seems to require a large amount of carefully timed collective to stop the descent.
I am wondering if a shallower approach is really the "normal" approach to an airport. Should I just shut up and learn to approach at 12 degrees?
Hughes500,
My calculations show a 500fpm descent as you suggest to be about a 6 degree glide slope. More like a fixed wing.
Last edited by slowrotor; 7th Nov 2003 at 00:58.