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Old 6th Sep 2013, 17:52
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doubleu-anker
 
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All been done before guys and gals. Why increase the risk of an expensive and inconvenient missed approach to save a matter of seconds by coming in like a bat out of hell.

You really need to try and be stabilised at 1500 FT. Aim for that, as others have pointed out you have leeway. If you make a habit of "showing off", one day you will arrive really fast, when you are tied at the end of a long day, for e.g. If it goes pear shaped it could set off a chain of events that could risk all. Also I like to have the engines spoiled up. Being clever, you risk touching down with no power or very little, therefore very little control. open the throttles and nothing happens. This was very important consideration on the early turbo jets, of course.

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