Originally Posted by
cessnapete
Surely the answer to the QF744 brake fire incident was to use full reverse thrust at that touchdown speed, when retardation is most effective. Blind adherence to noise abatement idle thrust requirements don’t come before safety. It’s called airmanship.
Better stop safely and perhaps get a rude note from the Airport Authority.
You can't
plan to land in the curfew shoulder period with greater than idle reverse. In the example I gave of our A380 arrival we could have landed with 15 knots tailwind had we been able to utilise full reverse. Of course it was available to us but then we wouldn't have been complying with the curfew act because we would have been planning to land using greater than idle reverse. Massive fine for Qantas and it wouldn't have taken a rocket scientist to have crunched the numbers had we used full reverse and just submitted paperwork.
Of course maybe it was this rigid adherence to the intent of the curfew act, and not shoot an approach where the tailwind had been consistently reported as exceeding the certified limit of the jet even if we did use full reverse that makes some of us Austronauts.