Originally Posted by Swedish Steve
But retracting the flaps from 30 to 25 will only take a couple of seconds, and they had all hydraulics working so no loss of hyd pressure
You're correct
Steve.
Just to make things more precise, graph in P6 says 8 seconds.
Technically and aerodynamically speaking, I don't see where
sispanys ria is wrong ?
For every flying machine, the same rule apply and an optimal attitude will stretch your glide.
Would I have done better ?
Certainly not ! Probably a case for heart attack and best case scenario a compulsory underwear change before jumping in the slide ...
I think that crew has been
very unlucky to be on that BA038 but in the same time has been
very lucky to end it up the way it did.
But the worst for them was probably to have to go for that
PR BA BS the very next day.
For the medals, I'm not sure they really care but would rather have all the data in their pocket which I doubt they have been given ...