Just to interject a little if I may Three twenty.. I think atomic was refering to wings level rather than LEVEL FLIGHT. I have no doubt atomic will correct me if I assume too much. As for the auto retract system.... well there are a few different opinions on this, firstly you are flying the flaps to their limit and there fore stressing them unnessarily. The other being "Alfa Lock" in other words if they are not supposed to be retracted (too slow) then they will not come in.
Vmax and VFE are two totally things and by bringing in the trailing edge you have not changed any limits you are just accelerating to the next limit and is only relevant when S speed is greater than 215kts. As some others may agree (or not) it is never good to fly an A/c at its limits.
As far as I remember you can overspeed the flaps in THR clb and managed speed and yes you get an overspeed warning AT the limit.
Arming the approach DOES not slow the A/C to GD speed!! Activating the approach does!!!!
As to why the A/C rocks from side to side on the approach you will probably notice you have traffic ahead and therefore he/she is also flying the ILS and the signal is reflected around the preceeding A/C.
I hope you dont take this as being too inflamatory......
Happy Hunting....
[This message has been edited by Boxer (edited 09 October 2000).]