Approach speeds for ILS

I suspect if you cross the runway threshold right on the glideslope at 90
knots in a Skyhawk with a 5,000 foot runway, there is no way you could
overrun the runway if you tried.


I have seen it done. A pilot (NOT one of my students) in a rental C-172 from a
flight school I used to teach at ran off the end of a 5300' rwy after a normal
approach in VFR (65 kts).
Unreal. I just stood there with my mouth hanging open as I watched the Cessna
float down the rwy, carrying power and touching down with about 300 feet of rwy
remaining. With about 100 feet left, the tires locked up and there the plane
went, off the end in a cloud-O-dust. No damage, except for flat spots on the
tires and bruised ego.




-John
*You are nothing until you have flown a Douglas, Lockheed, Grumman or North
American*