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Old 14th July 2004 | 18:06
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Crossunder

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Approach angle vs. landing distance

A lot of the "old-timers" in our Company insist on going below the PAPI/PLASI on finals, in order to achieve a shorter landing distance (steep approach / STOL ops in a DHC8). I have a hard time convincing them that a shallower AA will give a longer ldg.dist. Are there any papers out on this / documentation of some sort? Our AOM is kinda avoiding the topic...

Maybe not the correct forum..?

Thanks anyway! :-)
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