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Old 8th August 2010 | 10:03
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Whopity
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explain to me the advantage of constantly varying your airspeed during the final approach?
There is no advantage, the object is to retain a constant speed whether by attitude adjustment or by small power changes.

The principle of Point and Power is to retain a line of constant angle with the touch down point my means of small pitch changes. Any pitch change will also change the speed, so a comensurate power change is made to retain it at a constant value.
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