Originally Posted by
ArchieBabe
2. Because the aircraft was climbing away from the ground, albeit not for very long?
That there....is what's bothering me !
The thing is/has always been "Sustained Positive Rate"....
.....and that is something other than "albeit not for very long".
The problem with the landing was that the sea breeze front was producing a tail wind at low level
on the final approach and over the touchdown zone. Previous aircraft had apparently gone around further out.
The runways are 4000M so we have
4 kilometers of runway it is entirely possible that toward the 2 km mark that the
surface wind was once again a headwind. So the aircraft pulls up in a tail wind as it crosses the sea breeze line and suddenly has 20Kts + of extra airspeed. That could give the illusion of power coming on and initial climb (back to somatogravitational illusions again) 200ft higher and not only does the wind drop again but the inertial climb is now petering out, the gear is traveling up and the engines are not spooling up. There is no way out but down after that.
As an edit:
Can anyone provide logical reasoning for why TOGA button is inhibited with weight on wheels? The throttles are not inhibited.