[DFLG] Do planes have to speed up to land?

[flareslow]

I'm sorry, but I must correct this bit of misunderstanding. Parts of this describe the general Idea of what is happening but some of it is wrong.

testcase wrote:
At the proper time, the pilot "flares" the aircraft (pulls the nose up) which reduces the aircraft's speed to the point where the aircraft stalls and falls out of the sky. When done properly, said "fall out of the sky" is done at (or very close) to the ground.

During the flare, when properly executed, the aircraft is never close to stalling. If we did get close to stall that close to the ground, we would experience a tail strike. Those can be pretty expensive.

To be clear, the original post was about large commercial aircraft, and we don't operate that close to the edge when carrying passengers.