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Old 3rd March 2012 | 00:31
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framer
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Yeah true but the aircraft I'm on that isn't an issue (737). I am not saying that I routinely fly around below Vapp though, I always aim to be on it, but I am less forgiving of being fast because it seems to me to result in a deeper touchdown than desired whereas being a couple of knots slow (but still at least 5kts above Vref) doesn't seem to have any negative influence.
None of us are capable of flying exactly Vapp all the way to the flare, my preference is to be below it and driving back up to it by adding thrust rather than above it and slipping back towards it by removing thrust.
I guess one way of describing it is that if I am above Vapp I fix it more positively than if I am below it.
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