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Old 10th Aug 2015, 16:08
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His Dudeness

I can get my head around a pilot banging it down on the numbers at 135KTS when VREF should have been 108KTS and thinking OK I am fast but I can get the thing stopped on this limited runway

I cannot get my head around and I am sure you as an experienced Captain cannot get your head around touching down with 370 meters of available runway still remaining at 135KTS without the thought that I might as well put a bullet through my head as do this suicidal landing pressure or no pressure.

from the cockpit that distance remaining would have looked like nothing
for that reason I still feel the guy was not all together for whatever reason? It was not a Bravado thing but a certain death decision and if he was of sound mind he knew that as would you or I

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