VOR approach SMO

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"Robert M. Gary" wrote:

On Jul 23, 7:23 pm, Roy Smith wrote:
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My point is that people should do pre-flight planning and not wait until
three quarters of the the runway is behind them to start thinking about
whether they can land on what's left.- Hide quoted text -

No, ****, but what are you refering to?

Your original statement that you "touched down about 3/4 down the runway".
That set warning bells off in my head. Were you planning on touching down
that far down the runway, or did you just come in too high and fast and
that's when you managed to stop flying? Did you have a plan for when you
were going to decide there wasn't enough runway left and go around?

You seemed surprised that the Gulfsteam driver behind you managed to land
on the beginning of the runway. I'm guessing he had the approach planned
out far in advance and knew what descent rates he would need and what
configuration it would take to get that. And I'm guessing you didn't,
which is why you ended up touching down 3/4 of the way down the runway.

The flying club I used to belong to ran three airplanes off ends of runways
in the 10 years or so I was a member (one was totalled, fortunately nobody
was hurt in any of them). All three could have been avoided by pilots
recognizing that things were not working out and going around for another
try. So I'm kind of sensitive to things like that.

Robert M. Gary wrote:


Maybe easy in a 172 but not in my Mooney. With gear and flaps out and
power at idle I don't think I can do 885 ft/min without a lot of
slipping. Even if I could there is still the issue of going from 90
knots approach speed down to 70 knots threshold crossing speed.

Go ahead and slow to 70 earlier. Your angle of descent is steeper at 70
than at 90.

DB