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by bronco21016 2819 days ago
Do you have a reference for fast gliders? I’ve never heard of anything like that.

I don’t think the FAA plans everything for the worst possible scenario. The odds of a classic 737 landing at max take off weight and thus high speed are infinitesimally small. I don’t have a landing distance chart but at the max over weight landing it likely can’t even land on 99.99% of runways in the US in that configuration.

If the FAA planned and approved everything at worst case scenario then we wouldn’t fly anywhere.