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Old 11th Oct 2019, 06:55
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jungleismassive
 
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rlsbutler,

What I do not understand is why R3 ever selected the flaps. If he meant to go round at 300 feet agl, he never needed to meet the “contract” requirement to select flaps down.
He'd never have got around finals without them. As the report says.
In deploying them, he washed all the speed margin he had. That left him at the bottom end of the recommended range of 170-150 Kts. That was made significant by the fact of his aircraft being so heavy.
That's why it's a range.
A basic rule of glide approaches is to keep your speed up. What ever sort of landing you are destined for, you must harbour some energy with which to control the event. R3 seems, in effect if inadvertently, to have accepted the temptation to stretch his glide. Should he have trimmed nose down while he selected the flaps and did he forget?
The report is clear, he was at the very bottom end of the energy state required to complete the manoeuvre.
The SI sought to find human factors to explain his mistakes. They could still have wondered about the HF that is commonly called press-on-itis. If R3 felt he was rusty and had consciously set himself a difficult exercise, he really should have better prepared his escape plan – meaning he should have been ready to go around as soon as the exercise got difficult, rather than at the statutory 300 feet.
It wasn't difficult. Report says so. And all service pilots are aware they can abandon approaches however dynamic in nature before the last contract/dh/stable gate/decision call.
What the SI might have noticed is that, as he got to 300 feet, R3 had nearly met all the parameters of the “contract”, even as he lost control of his aircraft.
He did indeed.

Please actually read the report before commenting incorrectly.

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