Originally Posted by
FlightDetent
Secondly, is there an agreement on how close is too close, so that the AP needs to come off? I always guessed 1500 ft-ish.
At my last company, the only suggestion was to select landing flaps before extending the gear, so as to have normal law do as much of the trimming as possible.
Interestingly, some of our airplanes require F3 for landing in this case. For others, landing config isn't specified. Does anyone have any reason why this is so?