Speekbrakes deployed before Landing

thanks very much for clarifying that Wys! – that site mentioned Geedee will be getting a good look over tonight!

Guys

check out the following site :

http://www.aviationpics.de/

(Sorry I cant get a link to work on this …dont know how !)

CANCEL THAT LAST BIT…WHADYA KNOW IT WORKED…YIPPEE

check out the Movies…Military section…there is a cracking video clip of a C130 Herc coming in and firing…believe it or not…’retro rockets’…. to slow down and stop a bit quicker than normal….only trouble was the rockets fired when he was up about 50 feet and the resultant ‘arrival’ left his his wings not attached and the plane at 90 degrees angle to his landing run !!!

Got some really good stuff there like…no, you have a look

Wing upper surface speedbrakes and tail clam door type speedbrakes act in very different ways. Wing devices act more as lift reducers than drag generators whereas tail mounted devices are pure drag items. Wing devices must, must, must not be deployed through the actual landing as it is dangerous to mess about with lift generation at such a critical time. They are used in the descent to increase the descent rate when required and sometimes to assist in speed reduction. Rear mounted devices are usually used to increase drag in the final stage of an approach so that the jet engines can be spooled up to a higher thrust without accelerating the aircraft. This means that in the event of a go around the engines will respond much quicker as jet engines are notoriously slow to wind up from low thrust settings.

i’ve seen the spoilers deployed a few times – most notably in steep desents – B762 last year inbound GCRR – also when “Santa” was supposed to lad on our a/c the pilot slapped out the spoilers and slowed her right down!

When I landed at KEF on Tuesday, the spoilers were deployed for ages during the descent – about 5 minutes. First time I’ve noticed that.