Cessna 402C training material

[z987k]

Yeah, other than new hire training and IOE, I've never flown in the Northeast region, which is fine with me.

There are no short runways in the entire Midwest region. The shortest is 4000 feet, which is a crossing runway at CGI. All of the runways used on a regular basis are 6000+ feet.

I just remember all of the training captains I flew with seemed real nervous about getting slow. They wanted to see 120 knots until we were practically over the runway, then follow the vertical guidance all the way to the ground. Personally, I thought it was overkill, but I do as I'm told. If that's the way they want me to fly, that's how I'll fly.

If it were up to me, I'd have fun getting it down and stopped in 1000 feet on the empty legs.

See, I never got the point of having that much energy to dissipate. It's not going to stall at even 30 knots slower than that, so... that's a lot of extra energy to either be floating the runway with or putting into the wings.
I always operate under the assumption that I in fact can not roll that runway up and put it down on the other end.

 

[milleR]

As I recall, flying the 402 at 120 knots to the threshold with full flaps almost always resulted with hitting the touchdown zone markings. Vyse was 106(?) so the 120 ref speed gave a nice buffer if things went pear shaped at the last minute. On a short runway in VMC you could modify things a bit, but the standard procedure always worked well at the majority of airports we flew into. Hell, low IFR into PVC and you didn't give anything up.