411A, I feel sure that most of us (fellow professionals) would welcome your presence considerably more if your comments didn't APPEAR to be frequently condescending, and occasionally self-righteous -for example, "
Most pilots never have the opportunity/need for maximum braking and to do so may indeed "feel strange"...as in, almost never used, except RTO...and most pilots don't have these either" and "
...but some never learn.
".
In fact, in TODAY'S (as in the at least the last 10 years) simulator training, RTO's are
regular events - often with a failure of the auto-brakes so as to require manual input. Training - as with simulator integrity - HAS altered, for the better since your halcyon era.
Analyses of accident causes, followed by solutions of "what they should have done" statements, derived after weeks of discussion groups pouring over something that occurred within minutes (at best) is OBVIOUS to ALL- even aviation columnists and private pilots!
Note the statement quoted by
Southwest reads,
“Furthermore, had the accident flight crew applied maximum manual brakes immediately upon touchdown, the airplane would likely have stopped before impacting the blast fence, the Board found.”.