• Skunk@jlai.lu
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    3 days ago

    Aviation nerd fact #69

    Planes don’t approach at idle power (not until the very last moment)

    Unless you approach with a very steep angle, the kind that end with a crater on the runway. But it is frightening and rule 1 of piloting an aircraft is “when thingy gets scary, just close your eyes”