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Old 9th Apr 2012, 05:13
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Al Goreng
 
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This reminiscent of a Korean Air B777-300 that attempted a balked landing after reversers were deployed. The PF had just had a sim bounced landing training and he falsely identified the strut compression as a bounced landing, hence he tried rotating whilst the reversers and spoilers were deployed. It ended up with the tail strike. Luckily the checkers on the jump seats commanded him to stop and come to a full stop landing. So I heard!
Heard from an ex KAL pilot that the bounced landing training by the Alteon geriatrics at KAL training centre was a contributory factor. Most of the Alteon instructors at KAL training have never physically flown a B777 and take what they read and see in the sim as the gospel truth. They have never experienced the strut compression and reaction of the aircraft at ground spoiler deployment upon touchdown. Most, especially those from the B757/767 think that the B777 is a souped up version of their old clunker that they claimed to have so expertly flown, that they just taught these Korean newbies what they used to do on the B757/767s. Hence that newbie just misidentified the gear strut compression in response to the unloading of lift upon ground spoiler deployment as a bounce, hence his subsequent attempt to reject the landing forgetting about the fact that he had already activated the reversers!

This was a prime example of hold on from sim training whereby the trainee associated sim scenario with his actual flight. Sometimes such training however well intended can have such undesired consequences.

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