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Old 26th Sep 2017, 18:42
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We always do ipad computation for landing performance so our situation awareness for the landing distance is there... Maybe I was not clear enough: I don't land deep on purpose. It's very rare that I have landed after the TDZ. Of course not, we are professional pilots, or trying to be. I'm just saying that if it happens, most of the time it's safer to continue and land than doing a go around. Most of our incidents in our company happened during a go around. I used to fly in Zambia with extremely short runways, normal runways and long runways... you just don't forget when runway is short. You think about it all the time haha. It's like when you drive at night, you don't forget to turn on the lights don't you? Anyway that's just my point of view. It just amazed me how some pilots can be so conservative and afraid of things going ugly and always overthink like: "If that happens" syndrome. Just fly the plane, relax but be sharp and enjoy. Easy life.

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