Quote from Avherald:
At 1600 feet, still at 210 KIAS, the first officer ordered the flaps to position 3, the flaps relief kept the flaps at position 2. At 480 feet AGL the speed was still 210 KIAS and above glidepath about 1nm before the threshold, when the captain, pilot monitoring, ordered a go-around surprising the first officer.
Does AF/Airbus SOP not call for speed check before extending the flaps or is everyone just blindly relying on protections? I too would be really surprised in this situation - probably doing VREF+50 and flaps still in mid-range. Surely one could get stabilized before flare?
