Originally Posted by
momo95
I would love to be able to fly like this, however 99.9% of captains would scream at me and any who allowed me to would end up in an office meeting explaining why they let me. Absolutely against all company SOP
(speedbrake with the gear is expressly forbidden too, an OFDM trigger).
That’s fascinating. Never heard of that SOP before.
What do you do when you have the gear down coming into land and ATC say "reduce *now* to minimum approach speed, slower traffic ahead”? Or it looks like you need to lose a bit of energy to be stable at 1000R?
I used to fly the 737 and there was nothing then in the manuals about gear + speedbrake. On the 777 the speedbrakes are another primary flying control and are used on almost every approach; you can land with them fully deployed if you really want to.