Originally Posted by Nick Thomas
Yet another question and again this concerns the AofA on landing. As she slowed down the drag must have increased so would more power be required to fly slower? If that was the case was a higher speed kept on approach to save fuel, engine wear and also to reduce noise? As SLF I apologise for asking what may be simple and obvious questions to all you Concorde experts.
Thanks again
Nick
Correct, Nick. More power was needed to fly the ILS at 160kts than at 190kts. So they kept 190kts and reduced to Vref+7 at 800 ft, IIRC (somebody wrote about it on the previous pages).