A quick question for the knowledgeable among you...
For the last few months I've been doing a weekly commute LGW-AMS on Easyjet, almost always in a 319 and almost always sat in a window seat behind the wing. So I've sat through something like 30-odd approaches and landings and every time (as far as I remember) the flap-lowering sequence is:
- extend flaps a bit
- wait
- extend flaps quite a lot
- short wait
- extend flaps fully
- short wait
- land
Coming in to LGW this morning though, it was more like:
- extend flaps a bit
- wait
- land
Any idea why that would have been ?
I assume it's something to do with the weight of the aircraft / outside air temperature , but there seemed to be just as many pax as usual and the wx was nothing special, about 7C and breezy from the south.
We didn't appear to land any faster or harder than usual, or brake any more sharply. In fact, if I'd not been looking out of the window, I wouldn't have noticed any difference...