Originally Posted by cutnrun
Actually, manual braking can exceed max auto brakes on the 767 (not sure on the 737) so if he was pushing hard enough, he could have gotten all that max auto would have given him. RTO is the most braking one can have but obviously only good for take-offs. Were the ground spoilers fully up thus ensuring the most efficient and maximum braking available? Anti skid working ? I have heard that SW will not use automation tools on their a/c (such as AT's, autobrakes) due to the cost to maintain - don't know if that's a true statement though.
Now, I'm young, and don't know much, but I thought that the RTO on the 737s set the brakes to MAX autobrakes if power is set to idle, which includes reverst thrust, so if the pilots saw that the plane was not deaccellerating properly, couldn't they just set autobrakes to RTO and thrust to idle?