wrote:
I flew safety for a friend in his Bonanza A36 w/ IO-550 yesterday. He
hand flew a perfect ILS, but it was with full flap and gears down at
around 22 in power. In my E35 Bonanza with E225 engine and low flap
and gear speeds, I almost always fly ILS with flap up, gears down at
around 17 in power. We both fly ILS at around 105 to 115 knots.


Back when I was flying every day, I used to regularly make no flap approaches
(Piper Lance) into RDU at 130 knots or so, not for any particular operational
need of my aircraft, but rather to fit in better with all the airliners. I'd
never get any "keep the airspeed up" messages, nobody ever had to go around, and
I had plenty of runway to get things sorted out after I broke out of the crap.



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Mortimer Schnerd, RN
mschnerdatcarolina.rr.com