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Old November 25th 05, 05:59 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
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Default Who can land in 'fog'

Robert M. Gary wrote:
If you are really landing 0/0 I would toss out the idea of trying to
flare. The glide slope is good down to 100 feet, after that it does
wacky. You would want to get the plane in a nose up attitude and a
slow decent rate and just wait for impact. Those of us that fly sea
planes were required to do that for our checkride. Berry Scheff wrote
about doing this during an ocean crossing flight.

-Robert (Mooney owner too)


Naw. Autoland systems exchange crab to wing low at 150' AGL and at 50' AGL
the throttles come to idle and the aircraft enters Flare. At wheel spin up
it changes to "Roll Out" and continues to track the localizer centerline to
keep the aircraft on the runway. It makes beautiful landings.

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Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/
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