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Old 30th Jul 2020, 05:35
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Originally Posted by Escape Path
I guess that’s where the confusion starts from. Our FCOM says to “stow reversers when reaching taxi speed”, then it says that “speeds below 30 kts are considered taxi speeds”. But then it says that on snow covered runways they should be stowed by 25 kts, giving the impression that they should actually be stowed at a slower speed (I.e. later) than on an uncontaminated runway, which didn’t make sense to me.

Thank you all for your inputs.
25 vs 30kt? the only way to tell the difference between those 2 with any accuracy is by looking at the ND. In the grand scheme of things, if the person checking you is going to harp on that, he/she probably can't see the forest for the trees.
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