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Old Jul 22, 2009 | 7:42 am
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During my trips to Indonesia, I have noticed that Garuda 737 pilots use extremely fast approach speeds, even during landings in ideal weather and at airports with long runways. Those speeds seem to increase in the event of any sort of wind or weather. I could not believe how fast we landed the other day at BTJ during a sustained 10 mph breeze; far faster than any American or European-operated 737 would have landed in similar conditions, in my experience.

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