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Old 21st Apr 2019, 10:38
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AoA was used for the approach and landing. A rough ‘on’ speed was worked out depending on aircraft weight, this was checked against the AoA on finals to hopefully mitigate against the AoA system giving erroneous readings, touchdown was unflared, holding 19.2 units.

Interestingly, we were always told that as the beast was designed for carrier ops, the brakes weren’t all that great. When we did the short landing trials, driven by the Falklands, we proved that wrong. By hitting the ground at 21/22 units with the brake chute deployed at 200ft on finals and standing on the brakes, on an average day we could stop in less than 3000ft.
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