NTSB: Brakes No Longer Allowed During Landings...

Lakeview Bill wrote:
Just kidding, but...

I just heard that the NTSB has recommended that pilots no longer be allowed
to include thrust reversers when they calculate landing distances, following
the Midway accident.

Fortunately, the FAA usually manages to override this sort of bureaucratic
BS...

This is the part of the article at cnn.com that got my attention:

"The pilots had used a laptop computer to calculate how far the plane
needed to go to land, the NTSB said. When the runway's condition was
entered as "wet-poor," the computer calculated they would be able to
stop with 30 feet to spare."

-R

I think the "30 feet to spare" already includes a safety buffer though.


-Robert

GIGO




"Robert M. Gary" wrote in message
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|I think the "30 feet to spare" already includes a safety
buffer though.
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| -Robert
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