wwmelvin@sbcglobal.net
Specialties: Airworthiness & Performance of aircraft
Current Roles:
Consultant
Education:
BS Mechanical Engineering, Univ. of Texas, Austin
MRO Americas 2018
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Steve Last is 100% correct for the instrument approach. I am sure that many of the crashes are for visual approaches which became unstabilized during the landing. A lot of these are when the pilot...