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Old 9th August 2006 | 23:58
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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I'm going to give my favourite answer: "it depends".

How effective is the anti-skid? How good are the brakes? How big are the spoilers? How much reverse thrust does reverse give?

Those all depend on the type. Without specifying a type this kind of "canned question and answer" tests nothing except memorisation of data, not understanding.

On some aircraft the reverses do next-to-nothing; on others they are pretty effective. Some aircraft have tiny spoilers, some huge barn doors.

FWIW, I checked one of our AFMs earlier today - loss of half brakes or half spoilers was about twice as powerful as loss of TRs, dry. Assuming a wet braking coefficient of about 25% of dry, that puts all three nicely balanced.

Just to add to the mix: how wet is "wet"?
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