Originally Posted by
ea306
Hello Colonel,
You asked which commercial jets are touching down landing in excess of 140Kts.
Many are much less than that...however the B737-800 at its max landing weight of 66360Kgs has a Vref of 149KTS and a minimum approach speed of 154KTS without wind or gust corrections.
Ea306
But how much speed typically gets bled off in the flare prior to touchdown. I'll check. Plus for a properly flown 737, steady wind correction is supposed to be gone by the flare.
Just a sim thing but we did 175 knots approach speed at Vref 30+20 yesterday(different type) due to loss of two hydraulic systems.