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Old 13th December 2006 | 15:15
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Mad (Flt) Scientist
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Some background:
Landing flaps on a GX is OUT/30. Standard go-around config is OUT/6. So this case was at neither the correct landing nor GA config.

The recommended Vref increment for a flaps 16 landing, per the AFM, is only +6 knots (not 10-20) and with that increment the ALD factor is about 40% (it depends a little on other factors, but not much). So, assuming that you flew the recommended speed and had no other problems, you'd be inside the nominal 67% LFL/ALD factor.

But, if you flew near +20, then looking at the flaps 0 case (where the recommended add is +20) you'd be getting close to 60% as a distance factor, which might be eating a lot of your margin.

(That's all assuming your message was FLAPS FAIL - if it was SLAT-FLAPS FAIL then you'd get higher adders and distances. )
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