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Old 15th Feb 2011, 09:49
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englishal

 
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Do you stall the Citation regularly

Actually it really depends where you are on the drag curve. If you are getting on the back of it then pitch for speed is the main thing. If you are flying an ILS at 100 kts you pitch for glidepath.

I learned about landings from my CPL examiner, he showed me a very short field in a C172 (then made me repeat it), coming in right on the back of the drag curve at about 50 kts for a precision landing at the end of the runway. He then stomped the brakes and had us stopped in 100m (172SP).

(He also "failed" my flaps just after turning a tight base and wouldn't let me go around and said that if I touched the runway early I'd failed Used floated along about 4500' of runway after crossing the threshold at about 100 kts . He said he was hungry and didn't want to waste time taxying....oh and that I'd passed!)
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