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Old Aug 8, 2018, 5:35 am
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Waterhorse
 
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Originally Posted by All She Wrote
In an A320 with a 2500m runway? Sounds like an recipe for a tail strike when the spoilers deploy
Absolutely, aerobraking is not an approved technique on the A320 series, try it in a 321 and you will scrape the tail, an A320 wont be pretty either.

The usual reason on the 320 series for a nose in the air is as described, a late, snatched flare which drives the mainwheels into the ground, the nose up from the flare input is stil active, this is compounded by the spoiler deployment which causes a further nose up input. It is something to be aware of and to guard against on the A320, indeed in a A321 should the pitch angle reach 7.5 degrees noseup the pilot monitoring calls a warning, as a tailscraoe is now highly likely should any further noseup attitude happen.
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