Teropa notes
Originally Posted by Teropa
What is also disturbing ....... to see is that in their 2nd previous landing they only set the TL2 to IDLE (while reversing TL1 as should). But in the previous landing (ie just before the accident) they reversed both TLs as one would with both TRs operating?
I don't know whether we know yet that the same crew made the 2nd-previous landing at Congonhas. Can someone say? We do know that the same crew made the penultimate landing in Porto Alegre, in which, as you note, both TLs were reduced to idle as per SOPs.
This shows, despite all the back-and-forth here about ergonomic thrust-lever design, that this crew knew how to handle thrust on landing according to the 1-TR-INOP SOPs. Indeed, I can't understand why any pilot would ever have doubted this. But it is nice to have it in black and white (well, black and red, actually).
PBL