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Old 7th Dec 2008, 00:14
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KeepItTidy
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KIT, to be correct, a Nimrod has never landed with the parking brake selected on. Occasionally the brake selector valve has jammed on with the lever off, or a pilot has inadvertently applied the brakes on one side (while kicking off drift) just before touchdown.
OK to official reports the handbrake has never been selected on, we will give a good reason to help out a pilot thats had a bad day
Just for info Brake Control Valves do not stick open, as you know the handbrake is a manual rod that selects 3 settings Green /Red/Red Handbrake , either the rigging was set up wrong which is unlikely as that would have failed big time indies, or the rod just simply moved to select on in flight, it can happen especially when a tray of donuts needs to be placed on the centre pedestal. Either or it dont matter nobody has been hurt and lessons learned.