Originally Posted by
Offchocks
Personally I think a lot of this thread is a beat up about nothing.
As a professional I would expect that you would assess what is required on the day at a particular airfield, whether you use autobrakes or not, idle reverse or full reverse. On the assessment side of things your decision may come from having operated into an airfield you are very familiar with, or jump into the performance information and work out what you need for airfields you are not that familiar with.
If the airline sops are to use autobrakes then arm them, just after touch down and you feel no need for them, then cancel them!
To me that is airmanship or is it personship ....... but that is another topic!
Spot on! Stop the monkey business. Unless your SOP has restrictions, the use of full reverser, autobrake or not should be at your discretion based on your experience and common sense.
In my home base, I almost never use autobrake as I need to vacate the runway at the far end, and with 3400M runway and with headwind, reverse idle only and no brakes application will bring down the aircraft to taxi speed just before the exit. Works like a charm.
