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Old 19th Jan 2008, 22:51
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M.Mouse

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From several pages back.
If flaps are at a high drag position, bringing them up (if system still functioning) to a setting for best glide angle (suggested as 20 on this thread) will help move the touchdown point further forward.
That one raised a laugh of 7/10. Effects of controls Part 2 when learning to fly as a PPL demonstrates the absurdity of that statement.

We don't know that for a fact. That part of the report could well have come from the interviews with the Pilots.
The AAIB now publish hearsay. Idiot quotient 9/10 for that one.

At 4nm, the gear would be lowered and the flaps extended to reduce to "normal" approach speeds (again, I´m not familiar with the 777 but the VC10 would have been about 120-125kt)
For quoting the completely irrelevant 9/10 with a bonus point for having not read the 20 odd quotes expanding on BA's SOPs.




Keep them coming folks I haven't laughed so much since my mother -in-law broke her arm.
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