Originally Posted by
Carmoisine
Why oh why would you then f%^& it all up by then taking the biggest risk of the day and attempt taxiing the aircraft? Using an RET or not, an aircraft which has no tiller on your side in FR, and only 7 deg steering angle using the Rudder Pedals, a task you have NEVER prior performed in the aircraft before. The most likely outcome is that your going to undo all that good effort and taxi the Aircraft onto the grass
I take your point but I don't actually think it is a risk for the F/O to taxi clear using the pedals. At STN you could quite comfortably use the pedals to vacate at a RET and even roll ahead to the parrallel taxiway if you so wished. Even taking into account the adrenalin in that F/O's system, it is a relatively simple task as long as you are at the correct speed. Whether he did or not is obviously an irrelevance, everyone is safe so end of story.