Originally Posted by
Check Airman
You can't get full spoiler extension with the AP on in the A320.
I went into the sim this week. My partner tried a few different scenarios. A competent crew could get it down in time. We tried AP off, Full Spoilers, Gear down from 15 miles at 250 kt, 10,000feet (if we wanted to exceed 250 below 10,000 we could have done even better at 280kts). It wasn't going to be comfortable for the FAs walking around, but we punched down to below the slope, got slowed configured the flaps and were stable. Also tried configuring to flap full, gear down and slow down then descend at about 170kts with all that drag and again would have been stable, this was a little more comfortable for the aircraft attitudes, but we got stable later.
These guys had no business being in the pointy end of an airplane on a good day, let alone the ability to fly themselves out of a wet paper bag, or the CRM to not put themselves at risk. Tragic for the innocent people behind the FD door.