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Old 12th Jul 2016, 10:25
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Uplinker
 
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The reason that "No Flare" isn't a call is that, according to Airbus Technical and Training, there is no failure case which would only lead to FLARE mode not engaging. In other words, if you have LAND by 350', you will always get FLARE, unless you have some sort of system failure in the intervening period, which would lead to a go around anyway (triple click, master caution, autoland light etc.) Therefore, "No Flare" would be a superfluous call.
Learn something every day - Thank you STB. Why don't they teach us this stuff, so we would understand why we do it the way they say??

Although by the same logic, the "flare" call is also superfluous.

Since the other guy is looking out and therefore not looking at the RAD ALT display, how does he know that flare has not occurred at the correct height until it is too late? I think that in the absence of [FLARE] at 40-30', the call "go-around" from PNF would be far more useful - there is not enough time for PF to realise there was no flare call and react by disconnecting the A/P and manually flaring, without it getting very messy.

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