From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!npoiv!hou5f!hou5d!hou5a!hou5e!dwl
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Title: Re: airspeed during ILS approaches
Article-I.D.: hou5e.167
Posted: Fri Dec 17 16:51:36 1982
Received: Fri Dec 24 00:49:04 1982
References: rabbit.994

Just to add to the confusion, I fly a Mooney... an elderly one.

If I "...just drop the gear, leaving the power alone..." I'll
probably damage something!  I usually slow to about 120 (mph) during
the vectoring that leads to the initial approach segment, and to
about 100 approaching the marker.  120 is the max gear extension
speed in that airplane.  I then drop the gear, and cross the marker
at the speed that results ... typically about 100.  Slowing further
is usually delayed until the field is in sight.

When the weather is really low, however, I, too, prefer to fly the
whole approach slowly.  More time to think things over on the way to
the middle marker.  

Turbulence is more easily handled at a higher airspeed.  So is a
pull-up if the field doesn't come into view.

-Dave Levenson
-BTL Holmdel