Originally Posted by
Jan Olieslagers
I too concur. If you're too slow on approach, you feel it in your pants, right? If you are dependent on those precious instruments, what're you going to do the day they fail? This is what we train for - and take a refresher with an instructor, from time to time.
Well it does matter when you are flying commercially into short strips. The stopping performance is predicated on the correct approach speed for the weight. If you fly any faster you are inviting an overshoot. Flying the correct airspeed becomes very important. Should the ASI fail you fly powers and attitudes and take it somewhere with a healthy stopping margin.