Safetypee - I think you and ka8 need to revisit the OP where he/she asks "and with Autobrake MAX, the adjustment is 5 meters is reverses are not used??". Thus " thus pure AB might provide marginally better performance than with AB + Rev," appears to be incorrect. I have seen no explanation yet, although Denti suggests a possible answer. Ka merely explains how AB works in general. Do you know the answer?
Denti - yes - I have been sat in Row1-right on a positioning 737 where the operating Captain used 'MAX' and I finished up talking to the pax next to me with my head pressed against the bulkhead
. We stopped absolutely 'dead' in the middle of the LDA with the decel apparently so rapid that he was not able to over-ride the braking using foot pressure. Once the rear galley had been moved back from the front we taxied off...................