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Old 20th August 2006 | 01:28
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Centaurus
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and 'performance' speeds
What on earth is a performance speed? I have heard of VREF or TTS but have never seen the term "performance" speed in maunfacturer's POH or Flight Manuals. There is a lot of rubbish taught in GA when it comes to interpretation of landing speeds. For example just because the Cessna manuals discuss "short field" landing speed in their tables, this is nothing more than normal over the fence speed.

A Boeing 737 has a Vref speed for given weight and flap configuration and associated tables for runway length needed but Boeing don't call it "short field landing " speed. The original wartime short field landing speed was approaching on the point of stall with the propeller slipstream saving you from bashing it into the ground. The same effect occurs if you approach with intermittent beeps of the stall warning horn or reed in a Cessna with a serviceable stall warning system (a rare bird indeed).

Carrier landings were real short field landing affairs. I know because I came close to buggering a Sea Fury on my solo at Nowra when the sod of a young Sub Lieutenant who briefed me gave me the carrier over the fence speed instead of a safe over the fence speed. I closed the throttle before the flare instead of after the flare and the arse fell out of the aeroplane.
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