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From: jc@sdcsvax.UUCP (John Cornelius)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: Flap Flap (or High and Fast vs Low and Slow)
Message-ID: <708@sdcsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 1-Mar-85 11:46:17 EST
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Posted: Fri Mar  1 11:46:17 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 4-Mar-85 06:47:32 EST
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Reply-To: jc@sdcsvax.UUCP (John Cornelius)
Organization: EECS Dept. U.C. San Diego
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Summary: 

Sounds to me as though everyone has said everything already. The major reasons
given for doing high performance landings on steel runways of infinite length
on calm days are

	1)	It's just for practice to keep my skills sharp
	2)	What if I have to really come into a strip of length 1400' with
		50' trees on either end? I should know how!
	3)	I can save up to .2 hours on the Hobbs meter in this rental 182
		which translates into $10.00 if I can only make the first
		turnout.
	4)	It's fun.

From time to time I will advance any of these reasons but the one that's most
embarrasing is when there's another pilot in the plane and you're going to show
him how you can make the first turnout. This will be the only time in your life
that you will blow a tire on the runway. Naturally there are a dozen or so King
Aire's in the approach system at the time so they will all have to make missed
approaches until you get your C-172 off the active runway.

John Cornelius
Western Scientific