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Old 8th Nov 2018, 20:08
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Northern Monkey
 
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I agree with a lot of what Rex says. Descent below MSA on a clear day, brake fans, auto brake, turbulence, and my favourite - landing distance calculations for Heathrow in a single aisle airbus. All very silly.

Briefing has got a little bit out of hand at BA recently. Ironically the one thing I would brief is a visual approach. None of us are practiced at it and I've seen it messed up, several times, by people with far more flying experience than me simply because they hadn't given much of a thought to what they were gonna do after asking for the flight directors to be switched off. It's one of those manoeuvres we all like to assume we can do but the truth is, we're not remotely practiced at it. Especially on long haul.
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