Originally Posted by
Airbubba
That 'Warp 9 to the marker and configure on the way down' stuff went away a couple of decades ago at most places in the U.S. The subsequent drop in landing accident numbers shows the absolute idiocy of the 'watch this' fools who did it and in some cases taught it.
Idle descent and configuring while descending (some aircraft might require a leveloff) in idle to a 500’ stable gate on a VMC visual approach should still be considered good airmanship.
Last edited by jimtx; 2nd Jun 2020 at 21:27.