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aterpster, floating down half the runway length is never good — be it Toncontín, Kingston, Chicago Midway, or, for that matter, Toronto Pearson. Neither is not retarding your throttle upon landing — be it Congonhas or Irkutsk.
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Our procedure was if you were not down by the first taxiway off the runway which was 700 ft from the threshold, go around. We never had to because we made sure that happened. Yes that 737 video shows how close they came to going off the cliff. Wet runways reduced landing weight depending on the wind. Some days we couldn't land wet so had to reduce our load before takeoff.
Fuel was expensive there so ferrying fuel in was common if expected conditions were dry runways. Once they removed 25 passengers from boarding because of possible rain showers and a United jumpseater was told he couldn't board. I called the dispatcher and said I have flown there for years and that is the normal forecast and it always ends up dry so they loaded everybody up and had an uneventful flight. He was a new guy so was being ultra conservative.
The agent made a nasty phone call to our chief pilot saying I was being pushy but all I did is let all my passengers and jumpseating pilot get to TGU. Of coarse it was dry and everybody but that agent was happy.
Fuel was expensive there so ferrying fuel in was common if expected conditions were dry runways. Once they removed 25 passengers from boarding because of possible rain showers and a United jumpseater was told he couldn't board. I called the dispatcher and said I have flown there for years and that is the normal forecast and it always ends up dry so they loaded everybody up and had an uneventful flight. He was a new guy so was being ultra conservative.
The agent made a nasty phone call to our chief pilot saying I was being pushy but all I did is let all my passengers and jumpseating pilot get to TGU. Of coarse it was dry and everybody but that agent was happy.
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aterpster, my points are:
- the Congonhas crash is not a good example of a short runway contributing much to the crash — it was the no.2 engine left in the CL detente that pulled the aircraft off the runway. A very similar crash happened in Irkutsk on a runway twice as long, in a much better weather and in a much more forgiving terrain. Besides, I couldn't find any indication in the Congonhas report that the aircraft overshoot the touchdown zone.
- The overrun crashes I mentioned illustrate that even long runways and very flat terrain are not much of a help when the aircraft significantly overshoots the touchdown zone.
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I agree, unfortunately the Sao Paulo crash had a reverser problem on one side and the computer wouldn't let the pilots do what they wanted. Too much automation can do this.
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unfortunately the Sao Paulo crash had a reverser problem on one side and the computer wouldn't let the pilots do what they wanted. Too much automation can do this.
Completely wrong!
They did not have a reverser problem, it was locked out prior to dispatch. IF they had closed BOTH thrust levers, as any pilot normally does to LAND, then they would have been okay. It was not the automation, it was pilot skills.
There is no point in telling you this though as you are such a hero.
Wet runways reduced landing weight depending on the wind. Some days we couldn't land wet so had to reduce our load before takeoff.
I called the dispatcher and said I have flown there for years and that is the normal forecast and it always ends up dry so they loaded everybody up and had an uneventful flight. He was a new guy so was being ultra conservative.
The agent made a nasty phone call to our chief pilot saying I was being pushy but all I did is let all my passengers and jumpseating pilot get to TGU. Of coarse it was dry and everybody but that agent was happy.
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bubbers44, in the Săo Paulo crash, the computer did exactly what it was commanded to do. Unless, of course, you're talking about a Săo Paulo crash different from the one we've been discussing here so far.
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In the CENIPA final report about the crash (Săo Paulo crash)
The concept of the automation in the A-320 does not always allow the pilot to know exactly how the operations are being performed by the system.
To note:
RESA can be also a great help (no one at Sao Paulo)
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In the CENIPA final report about the crash (Săo Paulo crash)
The concept of the automation in the A-320 does not always allow the pilot to know exactly how the operations are being performed by the system.
To note:
RESA can be also a great help (no one at Sao Paulo)
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There's no use arguing with the pundants when it comes to how the Airbus works, the architecture of the airplane had nothing to do with the accident in Sao Paolo.
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Yes, the reverser was locked out, but the logic in the computer wouldn't allow the pilot to manually deploy the spoilers and stop because he didn't get that thrust lever back to idle. What normally would have been a small mistake became a major one because of the automation.
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Originally Posted by b44
wouldn't allow the pilot to manually deploy the spoilers
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Bubber44, the pilot didn't reduce the thrust lever on one of the engines, it had nothing to do with automation, let's pretend it happened on your 757 in Honduras, you land and only reduce one thrust lever and Manually deploy the ground spoilers, what chance do you think you have of keeping the aircraft on the runway? 
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Boys and girls - please can we put the lid back on the automation argument? 
There is no link to any question of automation being the issue in the subject of this thread.
This aircraft did not land long or have any issue with thrust reverse symmetrically applied or otherwise... can we leave it at that now?
The question should be what can we (as an industry) learn from the accident and hopefully do better in the future. Right now we're doing none of that at all.
OK - down from high horse.....
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There is no link to any question of automation being the issue in the subject of this thread.
This aircraft did not land long or have any issue with thrust reverse symmetrically applied or otherwise... can we leave it at that now?
The question should be what can we (as an industry) learn from the accident and hopefully do better in the future. Right now we're doing none of that at all.
OK - down from high horse.....
- GY
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There's no use arguing with the pundants when it comes to how the Airbus works, the architecture of the airplane had nothing to do with the accident in Sao Paolo.
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Capi_Cafre' . . . [TAM at CGH]
The crew's incomplete understanding of the ground logic directly contributed to this accident.
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Memory loss and temporary insanity might have contributed to this accident. I think protecting the right reverser and not reversing the right engine because the reverser was locked out might have had more to do with their failure to bring the right engine to idle. Maybe they were concerned about bringing the right engine into reverse so left it out of idle position. They just screwed up.
