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Old 18th Mar 2010, 21:35
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Maoraigh1
 
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Excess speed at touchdown is a problem. Too low speed before roundout is a more serious problem. Excess speed on approach should not be carried to touchdown. You feel the difference in ground effect if the speed is too high. Hold off until the plane sinks.
The aim of excess speed on approach to some runways is to arrive over the threshhold at the correct speed.
And 05/23 at Inverness has no problems for GA types.
Aircraft mass, and wing section, affect handling on landing. On PA38 checkouts, I've been told by instructors to have a "Stabilised approach by 200 ft".
I don't disagree, but with a Jodel 1050, in gusty conditions, I don't feel it is stabilised until I have it half inside the hangar.
I have become airborne in a gust after landing on 23 Inverness, when I thought I was at a safe taxi speed. It took me longer to taxi to the hangar that day than it had taken me to fly 15 NM.
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