Originally Posted by
piratepete
Cent.
I really dont understand this quite common "idle reverse" policy...
I think that it comes down to money, but not in the way that most people would assume.
In many airlines engines are leased or on some form of guaranteed maintenance program. Brakes are simply purchased.
So the engine people want idle reverse [and aggressive derates, but that is another subject], and the brake people are very happy to sell brakes. Send a few "technical experts" to advise the airline customers, combined with a thinning out of engineering expertise in flight operations departments in the name of cost savings, and presto -- stupid and rigid SOPs.
And more overruns on wet/slippery runways.