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A Pilot's Take on Landing Gear Problems
Gear problems are great fodder for the media machine, but seldom if ever deadly. Published in Slate magazine. (www.slate.com) Más...Sort type: [Top] [Newest]
Wow! Quite a Boeing fan.
No brag, just fact. Airbus will eventually get there, but as with the difference in lawyers, experience teaches and Boeing has been at it a lot longer.
Experience teaches, yes. Some learn in 5 years, some in 10 and some - never.
All depends on inherent ability(or inability).
All depends on inherent ability(or inability).
A query from a layman.
While landing to touch down , the nose touches later. And this is achieved by 'certain' adjustments of flaps, ailerons and all that. Is it possible, at least hypothetically, to keep the nose up for certain distance OR raise it after complete touch down? For what ever reason?
If yes, was this maneuver possible to be adopted in this case?
While landing to touch down , the nose touches later. And this is achieved by 'certain' adjustments of flaps, ailerons and all that. Is it possible, at least hypothetically, to keep the nose up for certain distance OR raise it after complete touch down? For what ever reason?
If yes, was this maneuver possible to be adopted in this case?
Go back and review the landing video of the JetBlue Airbus at LAX some number of years back. The nose gear was cock perpendicular to the direction of travel and the pilot did keep the nose of the ground for an extended period of time. I believe he was interviewed saying he did it on purpose to bleed off speed so when they inevitably had to put the nose gear down, they were moving slow to lessen the change of it snapping the strut off.
As he says in the story, this was totally unexpected. Normal landing touches mains and then nose. If you have an expectation of a problem, you can hold the nose up longer than normal. It doesn't really minimize weight but it touches at a slower speed, AND, if there is a problem, your overall speed is down, reducing your on the ground if it does collapse.
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same thing happened to fedex in japan a few years back....