In any way, it was difficult to imagine a worse course of action than letting the speed going out of control, and reducing flaps when the aircraft was already very close to the stall. Ok, they finally avoided the stall, but the aircraft fell out of the sky, without any speed margin for a minimum flare.
At least someone who understand and who has practical experience of what we are talking about!
Woodpickle, I'm not rated on the 777 but handled 16,000 ft of engine out glide in IMC with in a fully iced aircraft. Do I qualify to post in this thread?
Eleven years of military flying on both fixed wing and rotary machines gave me the opportunity to perform 1h sessions every three months of dead stick landings or autorotations in various configurations.The procedure described by Bis47 is exactly what is supposed to be done and what actually works best. I don't think this experience comes within the 777 TR package...