I flew into Bournemouth last night on a Thomson 738. Weather was absolutely rubbish, heavy rain and strong winds. We didn't break cloud until we were virtually over the airfield boundary. When we touched down it felt like we aquaplaned for a couple of seconds, and the brakes/reversers certainly took normal than longer to be applied. Cue lots of sharp intakes of breath and many a clenched bum cheek! When the brakes did come on they went on hard and I'm pretty sure we used more than reverse idle.
My question is (and I'm assuming autobrake was used) what triggers the autobrake? I guess they wouldn't work in an aquaplane as that would only make it worse?
By the way if anyone operated TOM877 yesterday, or knows someone who did, great job and thanks!
