Does anybody know that why C172S POH doesn't have normal & soft field landing distance chart?

Question

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I found out that C172S, C172P model POH doesn't have normal landing distance & soft field landing distance chart or table. It has only short field landing distance.

Does anybody know the reason?

Thanks.

Answer 1

Typically light GA aircraft do not list normal landing distances or soft field distances in AFMs. Looking at the POH from a 172S

Look at Note 3, which refers to typical soft field conditions. It indicates that a 45% increase in the short field figures is representative of soft field landing distances.

As a “normal” landing distances vary depending on how aggressive one applies stopping techniques on the ground this distance is going to vary depending on how the pilot flies the approach and landing. Unless a specific procedure is described for this, as in the case for short field operations, there’s no way to draw up definitive performance tables for this. In addition, the critical value here is if the pilot has enough runway available to fly the approach and stop the airplane in the minimum distance required. If in doubt as to how much runway one will need during landing, the pilot should plan on using a short field procedure and use the published tables accordingly.

For general operations, I find an approximate 30% increase in the figures listed in these tables will provide a good margain for error and offer a conservative margain for landing figures.

Example: grass field, 4120 ft ASL, local altimeter setting of 29.83” Hg, 82° F (28°C), still air.

Pressure altitude is 4210 ft.

Using an E6B, the density altitude is 6,500 ft

Select 7000 ft from the table, 10°C column.

This gives a 730 ft landing roll from the table and 1585 ft distance to clear 50ft obstacle.

Increasing the ground roll figure by 45% for soft field gives 1059 ft ground roll and (1585-730) + 1059 = 1914 ft to clear 50 ft obstacle.

Increase by 30% for safety margin gives 1376 ft ground roll and 2488ft to clear 50ft obstacle.