Posted on 05/31/2009 7:58:41 PM PDT by Steelfish
Glad everyone’s okay, but I’m glad you caught that flap thing, too.
Flaps is flaps. Need ‘em for landing, helpful for takeoff.
Not enough thrust, perhaps? I hate reading about aviation written my general news reporters. Gee, I wonder if they get this political thing right, too...
Exactly. It doesn’t sound like deploying the flaps while in the takeoff roll would be such a good idea.
Good comparison.....we shall see
I landed at Bulverde. My daughter was stationed at Fort Sam. Make it back in only one day. Those things cruise at 90 mph and I carry 24 gal of fuel. Was fun trip.
“technical fault caused the plane to go into landing mode”
If flaps were not extended at the start of the takeoff roll EICAS would have generated a CAS warning and a NO TAKEOFF aural would be screaching in the cockpit - hard to miss.
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