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Old 21st May 2014 | 19:54
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underfire
 
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If you at/near approach idle thrust, arent you supposed to spool up at the MA location?

This timeframe in the discussion, if ref engine spoolup alone, is a bit troublesome from a procedure design perspective.

The momentary descent (50 feet) was based on a 7 second reaction time.

The reaction time included pilot decision making to GA of 2 seconds, 3 seconds for the action to place the ac in GA mode, and 2 seconds for the aircraft to react...

This discussion seems to say that it takes 6-8 seconds for the engine to go from approach idle to GA thrust.

That means 11 to 13 seconds for the ac to react...that is a hell of a lot more than 50' of momentary descent.
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