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Originally Posted by sos
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Great drawings. They got me thinking.
Do these names "attack" and "approach" coincide with airplane flight terminology  If so, when landing a planes "angle of attack" measures steepness while "angle of approach" measures runway alignment; right
If the viewpoint for both drawings was perpendicular to the inclined plane, would not the angle of attack and approach be the same, just oriented 180* from each other
SOS
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I haven't landed a Cessna in years but I don't remember a reference to an attack angle- at least not in the jargon of landing an airplane. We did use an angle of approach when landing and it was a downward angle that took the aircraft down to the beginning of the runway- a most important place to get to- you didn't want to be so close to the ground and not be short or long on the approach.
Lynn, for all of us city folk- how does a King Fischer attack?