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Old 04-13-2008, 04:39 PM
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Outlaw2097
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Originally Posted by Ottopilot View Post
"And upon hitting the tarmac, pilots must quickly and fully engage the auto-breaks."

I love the "experts" who wrote this. How do you quickly and fully engage auto-brakes? They are automatic! That's why they call them automatic-brakes. You set them before you land, not after you "hit" the tarmac.
It probably just sounds better to the public when we 'engage' something...
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