411A, reference the "Boeing Push" (or "Boeing Bunt" as I first heard it referred to many years ago in CX) I can categorically state that there is one longbody Boeing on which it does
not work...
About 4 years ago, Larnaca, B777, muggins here flares about 10 feet too high, and thus performs company-prohibited low-fly-by manouever at about 5 feet radio. Not got the World's longest piece of tarmac to do this with in front of me.
"No problem, " thinks I, "I'll just bunt it, that always works."
No it doesn't. On the 777 it merely flattens the attitude at which your low pass is being flown. Low fly-by now is taking place at a crowd-pleasing 3 feet!
For the record we touched down through sheer luck a millisecond before I hit TOGA, and completed the (er, rather deep!) landing with plenty of margin. Lesson learned.
And then... on the bus, what were the comments from the back? "Who did that landing? It was so good, so smooth!" Sometimes it is best to keep'em in ignorance of the reality, no?
£6
[ 14 July 2001: Message edited by: Sick Squid ]