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Subject: Re: [OM] OT: Dubai 777 Crash
From: ChrisB <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 20 Sep 2016 20:37:27 +0100
I agree, Ken.  I teach my students to keep their hand on the throttle; you 
never know when you might need the oomph :-)

Chris

> On 20 Sep 16, at 20:35, Ken Norton <ken@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
>> I see it all the time with these new wankers, they didn’t do anything smart 
>> like shoving the thrust levers through the bulkhead.
> 
> I had a flying instructor that was teaching that you only kept your
> hand on the throttle if you were doing a touch-and-go, but not if you
> were doing a full-stop landing. Maybe that is how NORMAL instructors
> teach, but I remember that at Ottiger, our home airport, you didn't
> move your fingers off of that throttle until you had three tires
> squishing into the pavement, a cloud of brake dust and absolutely no
> chance of surviving a go-around. Every landing was to be treated as a
> touch-and-go until proven otherwise. Different attitude. Instead of
> the go-around being the exception, in your mind, the go-around is the
> rule. When you are running short-field, tall-trees, high-temperatures
> and swirling gusty winds, you've got to be willing to say "nyet" and
> abandon the landing. It's far easier to make that decision when it is
> the default mode and a landing completion is the mental exception. One
> of the active pilots at our field was a retired Navy pilot and tried
> to beat it into all of us that every landing was to be a go-around
> unless otherwise noted. Unfortunately, my dad learned the hard way
> (twice) that not thinking that way would result in bent wings and
> props.

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