Originally Posted by
321XLR
Not sure your "thought process" but I always land flaps full. It is what "Airbus designed the plane to do" and I trust Airbus. I grow weary with Captains who "want to save fuel" by using Flaps 3 (but smoke the brakes on landing) etc.
Wonder what Air France SOP's are. They are in the factory's backyard.
Landing Flaps 3 is quite a standard procedure for fuel savings amongst the majority of the operators provided that it makes sense from the point of view of LDA and MROT. In the end it’s up to Operator to define how they like it done, rare, medium or well done 😅
As an example we recently got a memo from flt ops asking to increase the number of F3 landing to reach a target of 90%. The majority of our destinations have MROT procedures and we don’t have brake fans…. Hello BBQd brakes… but that’s what they ask for? No problems we’ll say goodbye to the 25 min turns.