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@ Miles: "...measure the distances used and factor them for the average pilot in an average aircraft on the average day."
You have a FAR25 reference for that?
States that techniques used must be consistent with 'average pilot' skills - but am willing to eat my last hat if there is any factoring involved. What you see is a factory test pilot simulating degraded skill consistent with an average pilot - but there is no 'factoring fat' for you. Using their 'average skill mode', the test team reliably reproduced stopping the aircraft in the stated distance - no more, and certainly no less.
Most pilots I have observed trying to match the ALD come close - but few meet the numbers.