On Wed, 17 Oct 2007 15:13:49 -0700, Andrew Sarangan
wrote:

You are relying heavily on how high it "feels" and how far it
"feels", and how that might transpire into a good approach angle after
you turn final. Once you are on final, your argument is correct that
you should be able to do everything by the visual angle.

I had a good demonstration of this a few days ago. I was returning to
the airport from the south and decided that I wasn't going to bother
going off to find the 45 when Runway 02 was staring right at me, so I
cut the power and trimmed for 60 mph, only to realize as time went on
that I was sinking below the desired glide angle. I had to go to 1200
rpm to make the runway. If the engine had been out, I would have been
sorely embarrassed.

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