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Old 20th Jun 2002, 05:09
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The A330 has such a slippery wing that it is very difficult to fly a decelerated approach in a large tailwind and manage to be stabilised by 1000'. On the other hand, a 15 knot tailwind (our max) only increases landing distance by 15% or about 250m.
Thus, if there is a wind change at lower level, I would prefer the headwind on approach swinging around to a tailwind for landing. This assuming of course plenty of LDA.
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