Landing rules, your thoughts please.

[Frank DeBartolo]

Re: Landing rules, your thoughts please.

First commandment of safe flight is:

"Maintain thee thy flying speed lest the earth rise up and smite thee".

[jim cooper]

Re: Landing rules, your thoughts please.

EXACTLY! for instance, former flight instructor, showing me "correct" way to land taylorcraft is to SLOW IT DOWN! he sets up and on final is doing 55 over trees at 300 feet with road and a line of trees again 500 feet ahead, before threshold. My mind is saying "60 year old engine and carb, especially carb.! no WAY!" I told him how wonderful he was and thought you dumb ass. With 3000 feet of grass ahead of you looking like a billard table, what is going thru your MIND?! I would have been at 65 to 70, slipping down over the last trees. your thoughts? ( 65 year old airspeed indicator TOO!)JC