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Old 7th Dec 2009, 22:36
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Huck
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That saying, all these protection schemes deal with one aspect, pitch attitude, which is a repeating factor in MD-11 accidents/incidents.
I just went through recurrent training on the MD11, the first time since the Narita crash.

In the simulator, the focus was on pitch angle control in the flare - they froze us in the flare and let us play with pitch until we absolutely could nail 7.5 degrees pitch up by outside reference only. The theory is that the plane can take just about any reasonable landing, including a bounce, if you can hold 7.5 and control altitude with power.

Then we came in and landed with spoilers disarmed, held pitch and added a little power, then set it back down, then repeated. My best effort led to three touch & goes in a row on a 10,000 foot runway....

And by the way, tail fuel management does work on the ground, in "H" mode (gives you another 5k takeoff weight capability).
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