Originally Posted by Courtney Mil
Quite right, AGS. The plan would be to land and use thrust-reverse and then brakes to kill the speed and then lower the hook for a departure end engagement if required. Thing is that the TR and brakes did such a good job that the overrun wasn't usually needed - except in the sim.
So how did you slow from 240-ish kts to 200kts so you could engage the T/R?
I completed a couple of 'higher speed' approaches in the GR and they usually ended up in the overrun cable because it took time to slow to T/R engagement speed which used up a lot of runway at those speeds (except at Dhahran, where we turned off before the end, cos the runway was humungously long).
