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Any other Bonanza pilots have thoughts on Approach Speeds?

Eckelbar posits 105 knots. I've tried it and it works, but is a
handful to reconfigure and slow down in time for a more reasonable 75
KIAS final approach speed.

Dick Collins recommends flying approaches fast ("the runways are
usually long..")

Thoughts?


Doesn't much matter if you ae happily configured when you cross the
threshold.
The only other consideratons are the way you slwo the airplane down.
Using flaps as speedbrakes is a bad idea and even putting them out at
the limit is undesirable. Much better to put them out well below the
limit speed.
Cooling shouldn't be much of a consideration. in fact, i always figured
a fast relativelty lcean low powered approach was a good thing for your
engine.
Last but not least is caution if you are at a place where you are mixing
it up with heavies. If you try and keep up your speed by flying below
the glide nice and flat initialy , then pulling th enose up and dumping
gear and flaps at the last second,you run a very real risk of hitting
the wake from the airplane in front of you.

Which is exactly what this guy did..
http://www.airdisaster.com/reports/ntsb/AAR81-01.pdf


BTW, what it doesn;t sahy is that the Captain had gotten every singe
wake turbulence question on every written he had taken from Private
through ATR wrong, and had never been quizzed orally about same during
any of his flight tests.



Bertie