Picture this: You as a professional pilot are sitting at 18F with a great view of the clean wing as you are clearly too close to the ground for that configuration. What do you do? Do you make a fuss like you would if there was contamination left on the wing when starting the pushback or do you just close your eyes and adopt the crash position...?
Difficult isnīt it? Perhaps there is a situation warranting the non-normal configuration? But surely the commander would have informed the passengers of the non-normal situation to prepare the for the possibility of over-run, hot brakes making them stay on the runway after landing, etc etc, or?