Originally Posted by
WhatShortage
Test pilot from airbus while training some guys on the 318 where all of them had the thing of putting "some knots" because the vls is 1-2 below clearly said: that degrades the landing distance and is not necessary as the airplane does it for a reason, don't do it....
Yeah, lots of people do that at my airline, a couple of "neo knots". As for landing distance, if it's a short runway they will include the neo knots in the landing distance calc, otherwise it doesn't matter. I've just been leaving it standard Vapp and it works fine, I don't fly the 321 very often though.