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Old 16th Dec 2005, 18:23
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JW411
 
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I'm sorry but I simply do not believe that the C-130 is capable of a 30° glide slope. That is 10 times the normal 3° glide slope.

I once spent two days in a simulator with FAA boffins looking at the maximum possible practical ILS glide slope and the answer was 7°.

If you didn't arrive at the glideslope intercept with the gear down, full flap, airbrakes out and flight idle then it was impossible to get back on the glide path.

A 30° slope is pure fantasy except in a Harrier or a helicopter.
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