Ian, have you flown to LAX at all?

Yes, both SC and I pop into LAX every now and then although not yet at the same time.

No worries, if I wrote it I should most certainly have to quantify it. You know, Ewan actually had 2 complete brake failures on A320’s. The crash one forced Airbus to do a complete software update for all minibuses.

Presumably on the 744 you go manual by retracting the ground spoilers half an inch to avoid the snatch…at least that was the trick we used to pull on the 757.

I should have been more specific. The A320 had problems with the autobrake software in the early days…in fact you probably well remember our mate Ewan dissappearing off the runway in Ibiza a few years ago and collapsing the nosewheel on an A320. When the widebodied buses were developed they refined the systems and improved them. So the answer is that software updates have improved the brake systems immeasurably over the last few years.

PS, yes the taxi camera system is available on the 300 version of the B777…but I am not in a position to photograph that!