Setting Vref Approach speed 737
Join Date: May 2019
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This flying game is not rocket science, yet youngsters are taught so much by rote now that they hang their hats on flying numbers at all times. It's a world of butt covering and legal minefields. and I'm counting the days till I can retire. I blame the culture on Boeing and Airbus lawyers and the dumbing down it entails. I've never flown a type where I was taught and expected to know so little about the airframe!
So yes, left side first. It needs a minute or two of reading the WOW sensor logic to understand why, and the number of blank and confused faces I've had alongside me who can't understand it after four hours of trying never ceases to amaze me. They're the future and single pilot aircraft will be designed for them to fly, not the likes of me. That really scares me!
Last point on the landing the 737, an issue to which I alluded earlier. You must, must, must have the throttles closed at touchdown! The spoiler deployment logic looks at throttle position, wheel spin-up, and weight-on-wheels. If you touchdown with throttles out of idle, you may get wheel spin but no spoiler deployment thus setting the aircraft up for a bounced/skip landing. As the aircraft rises, the tendency is to pull the throttles to idle. The wheels are still spinning, so now you get your spoilers! The aircraft sinks fast so the flying pilot may pull back on the yoke setting up a tail strike. BAM! Any significant bounce, add power smoothly and execute a go-around.
