Originally posted by Curtis Malone
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Why not idle the engines right away?
Why not extend the spoilers right away?
Why not extend the spoilers right away?
I was focusing more in the fact that instead of pushing down to reduce lift you roll to take the lift out of the vertical and thus reducing it's vertical component with the same effect on building a sink rate but without the nasty (for the passengers) effect of being subject to several seconds of less-than-1G roller coaster feeling.
In the post after the one you've quoted I've changed and said something like "use the throttles and speedbrakes as needed", because Deadstick mentioned that going to Vmo/Mmo was not a good idea if a structural failure was suspected.
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