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Old 1st May 2008, 22:24
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betterfromabove
 
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Backpacker - saw your comment about holding off for a substantial time in that other thread.

Further to what one other poster commented, this also seems to me a bizarre solution to a late landing clearance.

Have been in similar situations before on very long runways with commercial traffic ahead & behind.

Why don't you either reduce to min app speed (if nothing fast behind) or ask to "land long" & fly a standard (...even fast) approach but aiming further down the park??

As you state, seems a pretty vulnerable place to be, especially in a gusty crosswind, in the flare, visibility restricted, low & slow above the tarmac...

Just thinking, would be even less clever in a taildragger...
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