Originally Posted by Rob21
Maybe I got it wrong, but until the "spoiler nada" call, the landing was "normal".
The landing was anything but normal throughout. They had significant forward thrust on #2 engine during and after the flare.
Originally Posted by Rob21
With no spoilers you won't have effective braking anyway......... brakes alone do almost nothing @ 140 kts with no spoilers. Am I wrong?
Yes, you are very wrong.
For example, it appears that with one engine producing significant forward thrust on a wet "slippery" runway one can obtain braking without ground spoilers at the rate of over 1.2 m/s/s. Imagine what you could do on a dry runway with both engines at idle!
Originally Posted by Rob21
You shouldn't "feel" some decel (from reverse thrust) before applying manual brakes?
You can apply manual braking whenever you think it necessary, say at WoW both MLG.
Please, Rob21, go back and read the extensive discussion on this thread about the braking and the braking performance. I don't have the time to repeat it all over again, and I doubt that others will feel much differently.
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