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16th Nov 2017, 02:00

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Denti

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In the airlines i worked for so far the SOP was to lower the gear not later than 2000 ft AAL. Which is plenty early for the bus. After all it is not a very slick aircraft to begin with and slows down, or gets down, very fast indeed.

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