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Old 06-02-2010 | 01:25 PM
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Default RE: gasser vs elevation

About the landing speeds. Very true. Indicated airspeed remains the same but ground speed increases due to the change in density altitude. This generates problems for a lot of different things that might have runway length limitations. If you were landing a plane from inside of it the numbers on the gauges would reflect the same vlaues. Unfortunately we land from outside the plane and must recognize that more apparent speed on final is required to avoid the stall/spin on short final trap.