Originally Posted by
wags3539
I don't have the book in front of me, but from memory I believe it's begin stowing them at the 80 knots call, and have them stowed by 60 for AWAC. If that's not exactly it, it's something similar and I usually stow them by 80 anyway.
At Mesaba, its pretty much the same thing...idle reverse by 80kts and stowed by 60. I don't think this is a fod issue as it would be pretty difficult to ingest anything on the ground into an engine thats at least 10 feet off the ground.