POH Minumum Approach Speed less than 1,3Vs?
After an incident with a hard landing the following question arose:
The particular aircraft (light a/c normal category) has a published stall speed of 53 mph. The landing distance performance is based on approach speed of 60 mph according to the POH.
Consequently the Approach speed according to the POH is less than 1,3Vs.
Isn't 1,3Vs a design criteria for landing performance? Or is it likely that the definition "minimum steady flight speed" (as mentioned in post #5) is chosen as the reference speed on this small aircraft?
Last edited by Crankshaft; 6th September 2010 at 23:10.