Originally Posted by
80ktsClamp
The 800 is very fast down final.. mid 150s is normal, and the brakes aren't all that great. It's not very difficult to land... but it will come out of the sky whereever you pull the power out.
Now that you have jogged my memory, that is pretty much verbatim what my buddy said; he also believes Boeing's Vref numbers are slightly low for the 800.