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Old 8th Jan 2005, 12:29
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Maxiumus
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Its very difficult to accurately gauge the speed of an aircraft landing from a viewers perspective.
Remember as well, the speed you see it doing is the groundspeed which will be influenced by the wind. So a strong headwind will make it look slow, even if it had a high IAS.