On Sun, 18 Jan 2009 07:07:17 -0800, kirk.stant wrote:

Well, it's a little better than that. When practicing SFOs (simulated
flame out) approaches, the rule of thumb (and this is from memory so any
F-16 drivers out there please jump in!) was 250 knots clean and 6:1 to
the field; i.e. you needed 1000' for every nautical mile from your
intended touchdown point.

I noticed that the film showed the airspeed pretty much nailed at 220 kts
until he started to flare. Couldn't get anything from the altimeter
display - hard to read off low-rez viseo!

I thought the glide ratio had to be better than 1:1 because even the
Shuttle manages 3:1 and an F-16 looks as it it should do rather better
than that.


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