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Old 19th Sep 2004, 17:44
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Bally Heck
 
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An airspeed loss of 25 knots at around 250 ft RA caused a power change to 1.51 EPR. Nearly take off thrust! This caused a substantial pitch up to nearly 6 degrees. The autopilot was disengaged at about this point. Substantial forward elevator would be required to stop the nose up pitch particularly with the aircraft trimmed for the approach.

At this point it would be fair to say that the approach was unstable and a go-around should have been executed. Why it wasn't I can only guess, but possibly due to the combination of an unruly aircraft and loss of external visual cues, the captain was temporarily maxed out.

The rest is history.

If 411a doesn't suffer from fatigue on consecutive night flights, perhaps he is a vampire? Responding to his diatribe merely encourages him. I tend not to read his posts as they seldom add any value to the discussion. Their purpose seems to be deliberately vexatious and if you ignore him he goes away.
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