Catastrophic Skip to Descent

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I did a Skip To Descent in 737, and found myself only 20 ft above destination runway at 120ias.

Its not caped to a 2000 minimum.
I immediately hit the runway and belly slid - only to fail the mission.

most of the time my IAS when skipping is as low as 15IAS up to 150IAS.
this is too low ( on 5 degrees flaps )
We end up falling at -10000fpm while trying to recover and this also ruins our intended TODs.

what we want for the cruise skip is something non-destructive

  • Do NOT change the configuration of our planes

In 737 this mean

  • Don’t change our flap config
  • dont change our Airpseed
  • Don’t change our altitude.

The ideal SKIP for anyone would be

  • Keep our existing altitude and config and speed
  • Provide a skip based on aircraft class or role
  • 737 should be placed 150 miles from dest if cruising above FL300
  • C208 should be 40-50 miles from dest if cruising above FL100, etc
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