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Old 21st Jul 2007, 17:05
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So you now state that both pilots were rated on the 'bus. OK, forget that, whatever, I have looked through my Airbus manuals.

At 62.7 tonnes using Conf full [full flaps for non-A/B people]

On a WET runway, landing distance from 50ft is 1150 metres
Add 10% for 2500 ft amsl airfield elevation gives 1265 metres
If 5 kts faster than Vapp+5 add 8% gives 1366 metres

This is unfactored, ie test pilot performance, using maximum manual braking immediately on touchdown! A reasonable wet margin to add is 33% giving 1817 metres, I think you said the LDA on 35L was 1870 metres.

These are Airbus figures, and, may I add, are for in-flight and not pre-flight planning purposes.

If you add to this any braking deficiency encountered on landing (BSCU faulty etc) or a slippery runway or an extra few knots, then even if you touch down at the 1000ft point, you are very close, if not beyond, the demonstrated stopping capabilities of the aircraft.

A long landing will eat further into margins.

It may well have been under MLW (which would have probably added only 20 metres to those numbers), but it was operating at the limits of the envelope, and depending on the variables, may well have been beyong them.
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