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28th Jul 2013, 10:24

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BEagle

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Has anyone bothered to show CAS the landing performance calculations?

Would he even understand them, given that the last aeroplane he flew was probably a Jet Provost 35 years ago?

Approach at VAT-5, land it on the right spot, full reverse and max braking, then shut down on the RW.

Not that much more difficult than landing on RW26 at St.Athan and stopping before the E turn off, which is about 1080m. Which even I could manage when delivering VC10K2s to Scrapheap Challenge.

When I was first at Brize 30 years ago, it was normal SOP to land with passengers in 1340m, to make the first turn off on RW26 - and that wasn't with particularly heavy braking.

I really hope that it isn't too late for this pretty simple task to be re-assessed...

The Germans are clearly made of stronger stuff than us - here is a clip of the last Interflug Illyushin 62 landing on 860m of grass:

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