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Old 30th May 2013, 00:58
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typhoid
 
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We do this quite often in heavy aircraft flight test when landing above the brake energy limit, on a long runway, and have no desire to activate the fuse plugs.

The trick is:

Touchdown
Deploy spoilers
Increase pitch attitude to maximum that provides margin from tail strike, say 2 degs less
Derotate before elevator loses effect or runway running out...
Brake

From my notes, around a 1-2kt/sec decel was possible which makes a significant effect on brake energy (much lower due to the v squareds being less)
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