Originally Posted by paco
There are often no performance figures for dragging in for long periods with flaps and gear down....
Having read this couple of times, I still don't get it. What figures would you require? Every half decent aircraft is capable of maintaining level flight in landing configuration (assuming AEO of course), which can be even flaps up (but gear down obviously) for light aircraft, since most instrument approaches tend to lead to quite long runways.
And after all, we're talking level flight in landing configuration from VDP to MAPt - which is maximum 2 or 3 miles, not from London to New York
