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Old 18th February 2003 | 05:41
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TopBunk
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From: on the golf course (Covid permitting)
I fly for British Airways and the SESMA program is a great way of catching developing trends on a fleet - deep landings or fast rotations, BUT, I feel that the feedback it gives is not immediate enough nor specific enough to the individual.

When I was on the 747-400, after each flight I would print out the take off data showing pitch rate etc and thereby monitor my rotation rates, ditto for landings and the touchdown position and pitch attitudes. For both t/o and ldg cases it also gave the tail clearance.

What I guess I'm advocating is a readily available FMC/FMGS report that we inspect and learn from in real time (the reports above required a password and delving through various levels of menus to find).

We are introducing the A321 next year and I can see some tailscrapes happening.

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