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Old 3rd Apr 2005, 10:12
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Crossing Military Arrester Gear

Arriving at a joint civil / military base in Southern France yesterday I was advised that the arrester gear was raised 7 cms above the runway.

I elected to land between the 2 gears, 1 at the touchdown end and the other at the stop end and taxi over the stop end gear very slowly, less than 10 kts GS.

I couldn't find any info in the AOM or Ops Manual about trampling arrester gear but can't see that my little airliner is designed to cross them at speed, especially when a CHAG (Chain Arrester Gear) is a variation on a QE2 anchor chain!

Any opinions or definitive references for info?
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