Originally Posted by
oldmako
It's been about 15 years since I've been on it. I thought that was a big UA thing for FOD. It seems like I've done that on every plane I've flown here. I have no recollection of Boeing's limitations.
WRT Reverse on the 737, the procedure in the FM is to reach reverse idle setting by taxi speed to exit the runway. HOWEVER, you stow the the reverses once the engines have spooled down to REVERSE IDLE!
It takes awhile to spool down from max reverse. I’m exiting the runway at SNA, EGE, etc., and the buckets are still out as the motor is still spooling down. Stow them when at reverse idle per the book. Works great.
Flaps 40 and AB MAX work great too folks.
We don’t know what happened and I won’t say it was the fault of the design or pilot error. Just saying fly the aircraft per the FM.
Glad no one was hurt!
Lee