Originally Posted by
Basil
Starting to emerge from the mists of time but wasn't it a failure to arm FLARE and also note the absence of the FLARE ARMED caption?
I've no idea why the RAF didn't just accept that there had been an error and train to ensure it wasn't repeated.
It WAS actually a brilliant autoland system which worked better than I did
Ultimately, it did not flare. Without trawling for the report, the Captain was doing a "senior officer" demo/training flight, the A/L selection was made close to the airfield and A/L functionality was never fully achieved or indicated. However, the aircraft was allowed to fly hands off to impact, on a CAT1 only ILS!
Left wing false spar cracked, aircraft bounced/rolled into a non standard gear-down fully configured visual circuit and lost 4t fuel before landing.
OAP