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Old 17th Aug 2012, 11:54
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mad_jock
 
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You can do it.

In the commercial world its sometimes called a drive on. Quite alot of flap zero landings will be like this with just a whisker of nose up with zero flare when you land if not 3 points.

It needs serious amounts of runway and really shag's the gear on heavier types. The tyres are landing at 50-100knts over what they normally do and the amount of breaking they would have to do would normally over heat them and blow the tyre fuses.

TP's arn't to bad because of the straight wing profiles which means less of a range of speeds for stall between clean and max flap. And the fact we can use tons of reverse to slow the cow down.
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