alf,
Take whatever it is you fly, and picture yourself on approach at a normal landing wt.
Now take your Vref/Vapp or whatever you chose to call it, and subtract 25-30kts.
This is not alarming to you in a pax carrying widebody?
[edited to add]
To put another slant on it, if the same (non) reaction, pitch change, speed reduction, etc had occurred at 1000' on departure 12 hours earlier out of LHR, it is my uneducated guess that this would have been front page news.
-By admission....this is an extreme comparison
Last edited by jtr; 25th September 2004 at 15:44.