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Old 10th February 2006 | 08:46
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xetroV
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Some more tips:

The 737 has a strong ballooning tendency when selecting flaps. In particular, if you don't push the nose down after selecting landing flaps you'll end up one or two dots high on finals in just seconds.

Windshear recovery: after the initial recovery actions have been taken and when the windshear condition is exited, the FMC may enter an ALT(itude) ACQ(uire) mode much too soon. Especially tricky if you're recovering from a performance-decreasing windshear. If this happens, don't follow the flight director, or you'll risk pulling the plane into a stall! Better maintain a pitch angle below 20 degrees nose up and set a comfortable climb thrust, e.g. 85% N1. To exit such a premature ALT ACQ, recycle the altitude selector on the MCP.

I agree with the go-around cautions - however, if you have ever flown an A310 go-around, you'll wonder what the fuss is all about.
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