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Old July 24th 07, 01:05 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.ifr
Hamish Reid
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Default VOR approach SMO

In article ,
Roy Smith wrote:

In article
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Hamish Reid wrote:

The other point is that you're on an approach with a lot of faster
aircraft behind you, and I'm sure the temptation is to keep going like a
bat out of hell right up until the MDA, at which point you don't have a
lot of time and space to slow down. That hasn't happened to me, but I
can understand why it might. I was asked for best forward speed all the
way from somewhere out near OHIGH to CULVE.


You worry about flying the approach and let ATC worry about the aircraft
behind you. If you're not comfortable flying it any faster than 90 kts,
when they ask you for best speed, just tell them 90 kts IS your best speed.
They'll deal with it.


Well, yes. I wasn't suggesting I had any problems with this at all, just
that I can understand how someone unfamiliar with the approach and the
area might botch things under the pressure, assuming they had more time
to slow down than they really did... I actually enjoyed the experience.

Hamish