Tune Into CNN...

[Sierra Mike]

...and every now and then, you'll see some footage of an AH-64A Apache rolling in for a landing, almost like an airplane. This is called a run-on landing, and it's done to obviate the brown-out effects caused by a standard touch-down. The technique is done to try and keep the dust cloud to the rear of the aircraft as opposed to the front; the rotorwash is much less at the leading edge of the rotor disk, which means dust clouds and snow and such usually move forward. A run-on kind of keeps the front of the helicopter out of the cloud.

Just an FYI.

SM

[ethics]

Very interesting. :) You should apply for a job in CNN.

[Sierra Mike]

Never happen. Field grade and general officers are the guys who get $50,000 a year for about 12 hours work a week.

SM