On 25 Jan 2006 12:01:00 -0800, "karl gruber"
wrote:

You don't need thrust reversers to stop a Citation 560. BRAKES stop
jets. There are MANY Lear jets running around all the time without
reversers at all.

In the performance charts I've seen, stopping distance in predicated on
using no thrust reverse. It's nice to have and makes lots of cool noise
but generally unnecessary for corporate jets.

The Falcon 900 that landed on our 3800 foot runway sure used them.
They went on as soon as the nose wheel came down and with the
judicious use of brakes managed to get stopped by the end of the
runway. :-)) Without the reversers he'd have been over in the mall
parking lot... or maybe in the mall.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

Karl