Classic British Flight Sim

Must feel great on board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5HLtdGeqE

I'm sure Peter told us that they did that on occasion in the Tridents

yeah ..The Trident could reverse in the air, and the HS.780, but it's rare to actually see it...although you wouldn't see it on a Trident due to the internal reverser's.

Different aircraft, same engine, same procedure...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYuiWPoIbew

Cheers,

Nick

I'd imagine reverse thrust is armed, and the buckets deployed as airbrakes rather than thrust reverse power actually being applied prior to touchdown. It's not that uncommon: here's a similar example:

http://myaviation.net/?pid=00612765
Pretty nifty installation, with the exhaust cowling sliding back and allowing the buckets to close.

And here, the "butterfly" reverse thrust vents are already open on touchdown:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v288/ ... WBD-44.jpg

But this is my favourite example of reverse thrust in action:

http://youtu.be/4IaWn7kX4Es

Garry Russell wrote:Must feel great on board

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yq5HLtdGeqE

Did he think he'd touched down already or was it in panic of a possibly overshoot?

@Darren

As far as I know it is a quite common procedure on the TU154 and on the IL62.
With the YAK40 it's standard to reverse number 2 before flaring.

As you can hear at the IL62 link above, it's idle reverse...

Cheers,

Nick

Now I know why they refer to them as Careless

VEGAS wrote:Now I know why they refer to them as Careless

Nice link Eddie