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Old 21st May 2010 | 11:39
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I see aircraft hurtling down the runway with no takeoff flap set, and no nose up control held. That aircraft will be going 10 or so? MPH faster when it leaves the ground. Additional maintenance cost ( risk of shimmy and all those other undesirable landing gear things), yet that pilot will whine about the cost of flying.
Thats why I have started to use two stages of flaps rather than one at White Waltham.
Two stages and I'm able to avoid that bumb in the middle of the runway when I'm at high speed.
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