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Old 14th Mar 2007, 22:17
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Quite agree for the above cases.

Seperate thought of the day at the 'reverse idle' type airports, when heavy and its hot (and you have a long enough runway) then I use reverse idle, with autobrakes brakes off, applying brakes at the 80-90 knot stage. Why?

Max landing wt (for us on the 737-4, approx 55T) with reverse idle ,20 degrees at sea level with autobrake 2 puts the brakes in the 'caution zone' according the the QRH. (Caution zone=wheel fuse plugs may melt...)

Same condition, brakes on at 90kt gives a min turnaround time of 20 ish minutes and I normally vacate on the same exit as my autobrake 2 colleagues, sometimes just a little bit later.

Hope this gives a slightly different perspective...
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