Old 02-09-2007 | 05:21 PM
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Originally Posted by ToiletDuck
I have a hawker who all the sudden pops up on freq stating he's on a 4nm final and I'm about 1/2mile in a 172. I tell my student to keep the speed up and it won't be an issue. Anything wrong with instructing him to do so?
As a matter of fact, yes there is. You won't be so happy when that student keeps his speed up (because his instructor taught him to do so) and then overshoots the runway and the feds come looking for the CFI that taught him this pearl.

Some planes are slow. Some are fast. Pilots know this. Most pilots accept this. The ones who don't are aholes or aren't getting paid by the hour.

In your example, the Hawker knows he has to give you the right of way. You can be as nice as pie and fly your 172 300 kts to the landing if you want butno one will care and you will have to explain why you blew out your tires, or lost directional control, or whatever. Or maybe you get lucky and nothing happens but eventually it will.

Also, I imagine you consider yourself a professional pilot now, right? So the single-engine rating explanation doesn't really apply here.

You fly a profile and that profile centers around a stabilized approach. No matter the aircraft.
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