Approach speeds for ILS

"C J Campbell"wrote in message I have no problem with
flying the ILS at 90 or 100 knots if the ceiling is well above
minimums, but it seems to me that if the ceiling is 200 feet
overcast you ought to be flying the approach slowly enough
that you can land at that speed. You don't need to configure for
a short field landing, but you are not going to slow from 90
knots to 60 in a Skyhawk in only 200 feet of altitude, especially
if you can't risk ballooning back up into the soup.


If you have to go around, wouldn't you want speed built up ahead of time?

C,

As Bob and others have said: you don't need to start the slow down at
breakout. Why not start slowing down at the middle marker - and land
long? The combination of the two makes fast approaches absolutely
possible.

I believe John Deakin has a column on this at Avweb. I know he likes to
fly 150 knots approaches in his Bo - he likes to hear "Bonanza xxx,
slow down, you're gaining on the 737 in front of you" g.
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Thomas Borchert (EDDH)