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Old 27th Aug 2018, 07:28
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Correct position of feet on rudder pedals at landing. (Airbus)

I saw a Youtube video of an Airbus landing where you can clearly see that the captain moves his feet up on the pedals only a few seconds AFTER touchdown.
To me that means that he wasn't ready for instinctive (differential) braking at touchdown. He obviously only had his toes on the bottom part of the rudder at that time, far away from the brakes.
When somebody makes a remark about it in the comments, his reply is "There's autobrakes on this aircraft."
You can see it in the video below, where you can see his knees go up at 5:53 secs into the movie. ( he doesn't only do it in this movie. I obeserved in his other Youtube movies as well.)
I'm really amazed to see a captain land like this. Your thoughts?
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