Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
Target for the Boeing KC-135 Stratotanker
100 to 200fpm
Full marks for descent rate up to 200 fpm; under 100 fpm the coach says the touchdown was softer than this aircraft is normally flown.
- Vref reference
- 146ktat 81,647 kg
- Tail-strike limit
- 11°the category's
- Ideal touchdown zone
- 200 to 600mpast the threshold
- G-force
- 1.10Gfull marks, the category's curve
Four-engine jet aerial refueling tanker developed alongside the Boeing 707 from the 367-80 prototype, in US Air Force service since 1957, with 803 built.
Roundout scores this aircraft with the Military Transport category's curves and touchdown-zone window. The figures it uses are below.
How its touchdown is scored.
The score at each point of its curves. Between the points, scores fall in a straight line; the full method is in the scoring methodology.
No shared landings or board for this aircraft yet. Its figures appear once pilots with a public profile have shared 5 graded landings in it, and a board once at least 5 opted-in pilots have flown it 10 or more times each. See the boards there are.
For reference.
Aircraft data
- Manufacturer
- Boeing
- Model
- KC-135
- Variant
- Stratotanker
- FAA approach category
- D
- MTOW
- 146,284 kg (322,501 lbs)
- Vref in flight
- Adjusted to the weight you land at
- MSFS source
- Freeware (Delta Simulations), Freeware (fafa_2021)
- Category
- Military Transport
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