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Old 18-01-2008, 00:33   #35
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Re: BA Flight lands short of Runway

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Originally Posted by SMHarman View Post
and with low to no groundspeed the plane will stop before it even gets to the start of the runway?
I'm no expert at this but extrapolating what I am reading and understanding here and seeing that the plane stopped very quickly.
We used to do short landings in FlightSim by setting the wind directly along the runway so you'd either hover in flight, dive and move forward or pull back and move back.
There was a slight flaw in that when your wheels touched the ground, windspeed had no effect so you'd suddenly shoot along the runway!
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