LynnBlakeGolf Forums - View Single Post - ANGLE OF ATTACK AND APPROACH DRAWINGS Thread: ANGLE OF ATTACK AND APPROACH DRAWINGS View Single Post #4 03-10-2005, 01:12 AM 6bmike Senior Member Join Date: Jan 2005 Location: Southern New Jersey Posts: 1,605 Re: Terminology and Viewpoint? Originally Posted by sos 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 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? 6bmike View Public Profile Send a private message to 6bmike Find all posts by 6bmike