"Bob Gardner" wrote in message
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IMHO, full flaps are called for on a normal landing...it is only when
gusts or crosswinds raise their ugly heads that lesse deflections should
be used. The goal is minimum speed at touchdown, and you are depriving
yourself of a huge energy sink.

Spend an hour or two landing on the numbers with the stall horn squalling.

Bob Gardner



....but not in front of American, or Delta, or any of the others that need
100+ knots across the fence.

There are way too many folks taking an absolute position on this topic.
Flaps or no flaps depends on a whole lot of variables with wind being only
one of them.

Kobra however was intending on making a partial flap landing that was going
in the ditch, but he didn't catch the clues until later. That's the point we
should take away from this story.


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Jim Carter
Rogers, Arkansas