PPRuNe Forums - View Single Post - Hints on landing performance
View Single Post
Old 16th October 2025 | 09:19
  #9 (permalink)  
mustafagander
25 Anniversary
 
Joined: Jun 2001
: ATPL
Posts: 1,187
Likes: 59
From: OZ
I think that the major factor in eating up runway is excess speed over the threshold. That is not to say that excess height is irrelevant, both matter. Kinetic energy is a V squared factor so it means a surprising increase in landing distance required especially in high density altitude situations where that is not necessarily obvious. Remember that TAS increases at roughly 2% per thousand feet so Mexico City can get exciting. I used to operate B707s through there, some interesting landings and heavy take offs.
mustafagander is offline  
Reply