The A300 is a beautiful looking plane but the technology is quite old...that pilot definatly did comply with the G/A....any sane pilot would...the problem is that at the medium power setting those CF6's would take a few seconds to spool up to counter that dirty configuration. I dont know much more about the airbus but i believe this is the reason the decision heights are so high.
with all that inertia it would be impossible for the aircraft to react immediatly.
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