Must be loads of Typhoon pilots out there...??!!

Is the chute "armed" before landing (just like the Ground spoilers and autobrakes on Mr Boeings Aircraft) such that on touchdown the system is activated?

Something you are becoming a master at Rmac............

Having witnessed the landing typhoon. I can advise thus.......

Typhoon landed after fairly sporting typical display arrival - nothing unusual, gets to a speed possibly less than a touch and go with no chute deployed. Decides to roll.

Dry power applied, lifts off and at approx 200ft or so chute deploys, shear pin shears, chute falls away onto beach. Gear down circuit to land after a low approach, aircraft lands safely vacates at Delta (approx 1200m of 1800m) sits there with engines running brake fans on until suitable temps achieved and then parks.

Q's Why not raise gear with extra drag when it deployed - just workload/busy? and its that overpowered its not an issue or cooling brakes for impending heavy braking or are they carbon?

Didn't listen to RT just what I saw.

And the student nav in the back lost 6 months seniority.

or (d) ...wasn't Friday the start of the Annual Blackpool Skydiving Festival?

No he did not

Seen photos of a USAF F-4 doing a circuit with dragchute deployed.

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Vacated on to runway 31 actually there was a let 410 on the delta taxiway

I think leaving the gear down is a Typhoon SOP whilst in the circuit. I also once heard that you put it down at TOD and fly the descent dirty but I don't know how true that is.

No idea why, but I have a vauge memory of talk about a software reason for it staying down.:confused:

Blunty

'tis true to say that gear down circuits are the norm at CBY.

Never ever seen them stow the trollies during rolls, actually.

So what you are trying to say is that you have absolutely no idea what you are on about and have no idea what the Typhoon SOP says. Fabulous.:sad:

With surplus power you avoid the chance of not getting the gear back down (or forgetting....) and avoid the extra cycles on the gear. Been standard practice certainly since Lightning days and I have no doubt another old crusty will tell me the Sopwith Camel did the same.

Sopwith Camels did keep their gear down on circuit (sometimes retracting them in the evnt of a hard landing). I understand there was a hardware reason for this but not sure what. :hmm:

Samuraimatt - bit of an over-the-top Victor Meldrew response there.

Calm down, or you might pop an artery.

Blunty was only offering a bit of harmless peripheral info.

No, he was speculating on something he obviously knows nothing about but hey, isn't that the corner stone of Pprune?

Says the stacker on an aircrew forum.....

Why don't you try reading the full forum name? If that is a little beyond you I will post it here for you.

Oh look at that, officially non-aircrew are welcome, how about that?

:rolleyes:

You lot remind me of that Clash lyric. "You have the right to free speech, as long as you're not dumb enough to actually try it."

Seemingly the cornerstone of this forum is having a pop at anyone you percieve to be a lesser form of existence.

Samuraimatt, THS - back off. I know that the SOP is to leave the gear down in the circuit. I don't know why but I had heard that it was a software issue. A question was asked and I answered it as best I could (and better than you seem to have managed). If I'm wrong and you have better information, then share it. If you just want to make yourselves feel better then go and find a better way of doing it. If you can't back up your snide comment with better information then may I respectfully suggest that you have no idea either. Poor show.

Jeez Louise....
 

Well I can see that we're all happy just to be alive!
A few people here obviously didn't get laid at the weekend!
BV:rolleyes:

Thats right, I know very little about the operating procedures of the Typhoon, but then again I wasn't the one speculating.

Oh and BV, although a gentleman never kisses and tells I did have a very enjoyable weekend.;)