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Short Field landings in fully loaded heavies (Read 2122 times)
Nov 15th, 2004 at 10:45pm

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Well I've been working on this techinque for a while so here is my checklist to land a heavy in less than 4000ft Cheesy. I Practiced in Antartica hostile environment, and so on, one of the bases I practiced at was 4500ft long and if you overshot u took a nice swim in some artic lake, anyway:

1)10nm from arpt slow to 210knts fly 90* against the runway.

2)Line up on long final, come in low and slow, forget the glideslope, use the MDA and hold that, until you clear the obstructions

3) Set autobrakes to 1

4)Begin flare 200ft agl

5) Let the plane bleed off speed

6)Apply Reverse thrust immedialtly hold the nose up

7) Upon TD gently lower the nose by relieving back pressure

8 ) When the nose hits (or smacks) into the ground set autobrakes to MAX or RTO

9)Do not retract flaps

10)Hold Reverse thrust until complete stop is achieved

11)Clean up the aircraft
 

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Reply #1 - Nov 16th, 2004 at 10:01pm

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Why not have autobrake on max to begin with  ???
 
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Reply #2 - Nov 16th, 2004 at 11:15pm

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The brake force will make the nose slam into the floor causing a tradgeic explosion Undecided
 

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Reply #3 - Dec 30th, 2004 at 12:11pm

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Its good practice to try Devil's Hopyard in a C-130. I have throttle on idle until just before i land, then full autobrake and reverse.
 

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Reply #4 - Dec 30th, 2004 at 6:39pm

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The brake force will make the nose slam into the floor causing a tradgeic explosion Undecided

I was just reading up on autobrake procedures and I know this is literally like a month and a half late but no, it would not.  MAX autobrake is used only in the event of an emergency, such as a really hard landing (me personally even in the event of a heavy landing I wouldn't use MAX auto-and remember that full manual braking is stronger than MAX autobrake) and would not cause an explosion.  And there's no concievable reason to set brakes to RTO on a landing.
 
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Reply #5 - Jan 5th, 2005 at 1:03am

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Max autobrake is for dry runways...  It just sets more pressure for the amount of skid on the runway... I thought it was safe, as the amount of skid is controlled by a black box, which automatically adjusts pressure to the brakes as you slow down... (or maybe im just thinking about the 1 setting  ???)

And don't set RTO on landing... well you can... but you may overstress your airframe in flight simulator... RTO is designed if you reject your take-off in an emergency.  In the real world, what will likely happen is that you will kill your brakes, and you will blow the fuses on every tire, resulting in deflation.  (better than blowing the tires, but it will still damage your gear)
 

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Reply #6 - Jan 5th, 2005 at 8:13am

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Yup, you're thinking about 1, which is for dry runways.  I'm actually not 100% sure how MAX auto is used, since any time when you would need full braking you would just do it manually (because, like I said before, full manual braking is sronger than MAX auto).
 
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Reply #7 - Jan 5th, 2005 at 10:18pm

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Don't really see the point...  But I guess if you were that Air Transat flight that glided without engines for 15 minutes trying to stop at a runway with no thrust reversers or flaps... it could come in handy... maybe to relieve stress no?
 

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Reply #8 - Jan 5th, 2005 at 10:22pm

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Then again im not sure if you can run that thing just on fan power.... no engines no generators...
 

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Reply #9 - Jan 5th, 2005 at 10:26pm

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Are you refering to the A330 that glided for something like 75 miles and landed in Lajes (definitely more than 15 mins)?  Incredible story, no?

Heh you posted right when I was typing, the fan power will give power to only the pilots PFD and ND, maybe the EICAS I don't remember, but that's all they get.  That and comms.
 
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Reply #10 - Jan 6th, 2005 at 1:54am

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not sure about eicas, probably not, for the most part they were on 172 gauges as far as the panel goes...maybe some vital electronic instruments and stuff but thats it. ya incredible story though.  They made a clip about it on discovery once... if only theres an online version to see it again
 

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Reply #11 - Jan 6th, 2005 at 8:26am

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There was a full hour-long show (actually there were two-one was much better than the other) on it where they recreated everything that happened in the cockpit, I learned about checking fuel every half hour from this show Smiley The pilot definitely had his PFD and ND up, but that was about it. They went into the record books for the longest ever plane glide.
 
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Reply #12 - Jan 6th, 2005 at 9:11am

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Allright where should I start Wink

RTO, no use in arming that thing before landing...since RTO dont react to pressure on the landing gear struts, but on throttle retardation WHILE you are on the ground and above a certain speed.

Autobrake on MAX is rarely used, if you want a firm braking action you'd select 3 (which is done on most landings on short runways)

The Airbus A330 incident. I don't know if you're aware of this, but the Airbus has 3 different hydraulic systems, labeled after colors (Blue, green and yellow).

When the A330 ran out of fuel, the RAT (Ram-air-turbine) automaticly extended since the AC busses went offline because of generator failures.
The Blue system is the "back-up" here since the green and yellow systems are powered by the engines.

But what happens when you lose the green and yellow systems? Well the RAT has enough power to drive the PFD/ND on the captains side, aswell as the upper ECAM, so they had adequate intruments. It can also power the slats. Braking is normally provided by the Green system, but the Blue system provides alternate braking...and if you lose the Blue system aswell there's still an acumulator that will provide braking for you.

 
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Reply #13 - Jan 6th, 2005 at 5:15pm

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Back to the original question...why not retract the flaps? That would put more weight on the wheels and increase available braking force. Also, you probably wouldn't have to hold at the MDA the whole way in, a normal descent would still allow you to keep your speed down.
 

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Reply #14 - Jan 6th, 2005 at 6:20pm

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Sweet, what I got out of Nexus' reply was I wasn't wrong about anything Smiley. J, are you referring to Brutes original posts or the A330 incident?  And I only know this from FS experience, but when you lose your engines don't you also lose flaps?
 
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