Originally Posted by
CVividasku
Are you a member of the team who thinks a dry 4000m could not suffice for a standard 320 with no failure ?
And who would check that at each and every flight, just to make sure ?
In answer to the latter, I am - it takes seconds and gives me an idea of what exit I can expect if it’s somewhere I am less familiar with. Beyond that it is my company’s SOPs (that I am paid to follow) to do one, it is also a legal requirement per CAT.OP.MPA.303 to do an in flight check of landing distance at time of arrival using AFM data (if there is sufficient time in a non critical phase of flight).
Why wilfully violate an SOP and legal requirement because “It’ll be fine” when a 30 second perf calculation covers me? Not doing one is laziness for the sake of it and, if something subsequently went wrong, is utterly indefensible.
When I flew Boeings, we were told that 70% of overruns are not on “short” runways but are on runways of over 2,400 metres but people get complacent. Make of that what you will.
Edited to add: day to day I try to operate such that nothing I do would make me (or the training department!) shake my head if I read it “in the subsequent report…”. This was drummed into me many years ago, and thus far it has worked just fine, thanks.