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Old 4th September 2016 | 06:59
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dixi188
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It does not have to be an Airbus.

In any aircraft, braking gently will result in cooler brakes since some of the retarding will be done by drag and also some of the heat in the brakes will be dissipated to the air.

On a very light Airbus you might end up with quite warm brakes if you have a long taxi due to many brake applications to stop the speed getting too high.

As an experiment some years ago when landing at CPH on 04L in an A300, I suggested to the training captain that we see how much retardation there would be without using the brakes until later in the roll out. We were a cargo flight at medium weight. So after about 10000 ft of runway, with reverse idle only, we were doing 15kts and turned off without ever having used the brakes.
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