On Jan 17, 12:04*pm, " wrote:
On Jan 17, 2:22 pm, "Robert M. Gary" wrote:

Landing fast just because you might have to go missed is stacking the
deck -- in a bad way.

I'm not following. Why would you land fast, you just dumped all your
flaps when you broke out.

The intent of an approach is landing -- whatever provides the most
consistent, reliable, safe, controllable airspeed for landing is the
target airspeed -- not some arbitrary missed approach speed.

But landing is easy, missed is hard. Make the hard part easier and the
easy part will take care of itself.

The benefit of approach flaps is reducing energy prior to contact with
the ground. Given a 20% increase in landing distance for every 10%
increase in airspeed (if I recall correctly), the slower I go, the
less floating over and subsequent rolling on the ground I do. That's a
good thing.

I agree, dump the flaps when you break out at DH.

-robert