Originally Posted by
Vito
Ugleeual,
Nobody is talking about” smoking the brakes” 40+ years of flying and never had hot brakes….i keep explaining that You can get on the brakes aggressively and stop the jet a lot shorter than most think possible, I do regularly fly a 767 into 6000-7000 ft runways, (RIC, BDL, PVD, SDF) land close to the 1000 ft markers, smooth application of brakes,full reverse.so far it’s worked well…
Well, this crew didn’t use all of 29 either I believe, did they “smoke” the brakes? who knows.
But I guess the energy dissipation of striking a bread truck probably helped