Stabilised approach

Stabilised approach

A landing approach in which the pilot establishes and maintains a constant angle glidepath towards a predetermined point on the landing runway. It is based on the pilot's judgement of certain visual cues, and depends on the maintenance of a constant final descent airspeed and configuration.

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