The reduction in thrust sometimes starts well before landing and I'm always impressed by the pilots' skill as we quietly glide in.
well lets hope thats from 30-50ft max. Coz if its from 4 miles out i would be sceptical about the stble approach criteria being met at eith 500 or 1000ft ( depending on what FR use).
I remember Dan-Air's 737's into LGW and MAN flew an early version of CDA's, not really for fuel benefit, but to be good neighbours. They kept the speed up and started configuring a little later on so thatat 500' they had fully configered, done checks and and approach power with the speed Vref + 5 or so. As soon as BA took overwith the LGW guys and girls the training capts blew fuses when they saw this happening.......and now what do we have.....CDA's and 170 to 5 miles at LGW.
