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Old 1st Jun 2020, 19:52
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Spooky 2
 
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The term is 'derotation" and while it may be discussed, it's pretty hard to demonstrate in a simulator. It's not a matter of "pushing the nose down" so much as easing the nose down. I think one of the previous posters referenced the 727, and yes you could get maybe a foot or so off the TD point and relax a "little" back pressure. Sometimes that would work, other times, not so much. Pilots just by the nature of the profession like to analyze and promote their own techniques, while the manufacture tries his best to avoid teaching "techniques". Trouble is that its still taught by those pesky pilots.

This could really up your day in the MD11 as the spoilers deployed in 2 stages, First with the MLG touch down and second with the nose gear touch down. (This logic may have been changed after a few years in service). At any rate there could be a dramatic pitch up if these two events happened in rapid succession to the point of a tail strike.
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