Descend at M0.82 until 290KIAS, then 250KIAS below FL100 reducing to 210KIAS approaching the aerodrome if joining downwind. Flap and slat out, decel. to 170KIAS downwind - gear down abeam the upwind end and decel. not below Vref+30 until starting the base turn at 1500 ft a.g.l. Then not below Vref+20 with approach flap until visual with the touchdown zone, then land flap and not below Vref+10 until 200 ft, then back to Vref for touchdown. Vref varies with ac weight - but 'point and power' works just as well as it does in a PA28!
For a touch and go, set thrust, NFP resets flap and slat to T/O, rotate at Vref+5, gear up when positive climb acheived, accel. to 170KIAS and reduce power sufficiently to level again at 170KIAS at 1500 a.g.l. downwind.
An alternative join - 300 KIAS at 500 ft a.g.l. on the deadside until mid-point. Then idle power, full speed brake and a climbing 30 deg turn onto downwind. Gear down and speedbrake in at 250 KIAS, flap and slat out at 210 KIAS and reset approach power; continue as before at the base turn.
One of the most difficult manoeuvres is the go-around into an abbreviated radar-vectored approach - things happen rather quickly for wet-behind-the-ears co-piglets as a very high rate of climb has to be reduced without causing a level bust whilst the aircraft has to be reconfigured and also manoeuvred in accordance with ATC instructions. Airlines can't afford the training time to practise this (except in the simulator) - but the military insist that pilots are proficient in this technique. Hand flying is practised much more on military 4-jets - and a typical last element of a new VC10 Captain's final check ride would be a 4-engined approach and touch-and-go during which an outboard engine will be pulled back to idle on the runway. When airborne with the gear up, the other engine on that side will also be pulled back to idle; the student Captain will fly a 2-engined approach and go-around followed by a 2-engined full stop landing. Rather more demanding than just half-a-dozen 4-engined touch and goes!!
[This message has been edited by BEagle (edited 26 May 2001).]