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Originally Posted by Joeaksa
The new routes are planned on a 3 degree (or 3.5 degree) descent profile. The airlines want to hit TOD, pull the throttles to idle and head down, never adjusting anything until they get to the pattern.
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Several decades ago, when things were different, buddy and I went to McClellen(sp) AFB on the NW of Vegas, and parked on a side road perpendicular to the strip. He walked right up to the fence against my strong recommendations of getting kilt instantly but I stayed with the car on the road.
F-15 and F-16s would descend right along our dirt side road at closed throttle, pull a very hard 90 deg a few hundred feet overhead, and touch down perfectly seconds later.
Absolutely fascinating, but not recommended these days.