Personally I don't care for the new QRH procedure.
Airbus claimed the previous procedure summary for the dual hydraulics and others kept you from having to reference any other QRH procedure but that wasn't the case. You still had to reference the "Landing with slats/flaps jammed" procedure for the green/blue or green/yellow failures to obtain your max speed for a go around.
With the new procedure the summary is absolutely worthless as you now have to determine the landing distances yourself in addition to the other procedures you need to reference and fine tune the Vapp calculation as before.
From my recent experience in the simulator I didn't find any information
within the summary procedure that
isn't on the ECAM or one of the other procedures that you need to complete.
As you mentioned the chance you will make a calculation error has been increased. It was suggested to me if you are landing on a dry, long runway then save yourself the trouble and do a ballpark calculation and call it good. If you have the time or conditions are marginal than do the full calculation or use the LPC if your company has one.
When we compared a manual calculation per the QRH with the LPC we found the QRH distance calculation to be a factored distance with the additional 15% added.
Any other observations and opinions from the bus drivers?
Last edited by Oceanic815Pilot; 5th January 2013 at 14:34.