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What best describes a stabilized visual approach?
A constant glide angle, airspeed, and landing configuration.
- Changing angle with idle power
- Constant angle, airspeed, and configuration ✔
- A steep dive toward the threshold
Why: A stabilized approach holds a constant-angle path toward a chosen point while maintaining final approach speed and configuration. Large late corrections signal an unstable approach.
Huh, didn't know that: On a constant-angle glide path, the aiming point appears stationary in the windshield.
Why was the approach so relaxed? It had everything stabilized.
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References
Answer: Constant angle, airspeed, and configuration. A stabilized approach holds a constant-angle path toward a chosen point while maintaining final approach speed and configuration. Large late corrections signal an unstable approach.
- FAA Stabilized Approach and Landing www.faa.gov/newsroom/safety-briefing/stabilized-approach-and-landing
A stabilized approach is one in which the pilot establishes and maintains a constant angle glidepath towards a predetermined point on the landing runway.
Checked 2026-10-09. - FAA Stabilized Approach and Landing www.faa.gov/newsroom/safety-briefing/stabilized-approach-and-landing
It is based on the pilot’s judgment of certain visual clues, and depends on the maintenance of a constant final descent airspeed and configuration.
Checked 2026-10-09.
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