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Old 5th Feb 2016, 09:02
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Canadair/Bombardier aircraft definitely demonstrate meeting the same requirement. Flying it as a test point is quite fun, done at a reasonable altitude.
The point in the report applies to any aircraft; once you have pulled the thrust levers back to idle in the flare, you are extremely unlikely to be able to hold the aircraft off the ground for the time it takes for the engines to spool up again.
While you do not need full GA thrust to hold the aircraft level in ground effect, the acceleration is not linear. For about 4-5 seconds there is often (depending on engine type) very little increase in thrust, then it all comes at the end. Which is another part of the equation for the stable approach having more than idle thrust, since it reduces to time to GA hugely.
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