Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
Not if you’re hitting brakes hard anyway to make the first exit. Brake temp isn’t an issue anyway unless it’s vegas in the summer. We never really used full reverse unless it was summer for brake temp, short, or contaminated. Somewhere along the way culturally (contract negotiations maybe) we all started using full reverse every landing and rattling the bins off the ceiling. Hey I don’t care how people want to use reverse so to each his own. Fly it your way. I was just saying that not using the A/C couldn’t be for fuel savings if using full reverse to exit on the first turn on a long ass runway.
And yes I run A/C until either external is hooked up or we are down to the last quarter of the airplane left to deplane. If it’s cold outside yes I just split right away and leave the it on GPU only.
Encouraging people not to use full reverse, real smart. I use full reverse every single time. Enjoy explaining to the FAA why you didn’t use full reverse and went off the end of the runway because the “overhead bins rattle”.