Originally Posted by Ducttape

This really made me laugh.

So we have guys using auto brakes when landing on a 10,000' runway in LAS, smoking the brakes; and then suggesting to use the APU bleed on approach and landing to reduce landing EPR? Insane.

Brake temps are easy; if a landing pilot and a Captain taxiing, cares about the next guy and the temps, its not an issue. No need for silly EPR tricks. Manual brakes, full reverse, and dont touch the brakes until below 100 kts. There is no need for auto brakes in LAS 99% of the time.

Sadly there are many guys who dont care about the next crew and they use auto brakes every time, stomp all over the brakes on the taxi, and leaves a plane with the parking brake on and torched brakes. And a majority of the time this is a senior crew from a east coast base.

I guess when you are here for so long, you just don't care any longer and when its the end of your leg, its not your problem any longer.

And you can tell if the CA is riding the brakes when deadheading. Especially in LAS; you can clearly tell when a CA is allowing the plane to accelerate and then one brake application to slow vs "brake tapping" all the way down to 26R. Brake tapping all the way down to 26R followed by a PA saying "our brakes are hot," doesnt leave much investigation on what crew caused it.