Thanks for your contributions conpilot!
Please can you explain more details as to how the Autospoilers messed what would otherwise have been a good landing? Does it introduce a skip followed by a bang!? How do tbey save a bad landing? Do you get pronounced pitch up with their deployment which kinda kills the sink during flare with excess speed?
How do you handle her flare with a 5-10kt tail wind? (Say medium length runway)
Does the 727 ever reward an inadvertent greaser??
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Cheers
Originally Posted by
con-pilot
Our -200 had auto-brakes and spoilers, but that was it as far as automation went. To be honest I cannot remember if we had altitude capture on the autopilot or not. I really don't think so. No auto-throttles of course.
I had a love/hate relationship with the auto-spoilers on the -200. Sometimes it would save a good landing and other times destroy a great landing. I never got the number of grease on landings I had in the -100s in the -200s, but in my defense I didn't have near as much time in the -200 that I did in the -100.