Mitigating the Risks of a Runway Overrun Upon Landing
Mitigating the risk of a runway overrun on landing — energy management, stabilized approaches, and go-around discipline.
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AC 91-79, Mitigating the Risks of a Runway Overrun Upon Landing, addresses landing-phase energy management. It covers stabilized-approach criteria, the effects of excess airspeed and long/floated touchdowns, contaminated-runway performance, and the go-around decision. Its principles apply from light general-aviation airplanes through transport category.
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