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Strikefinder said:Tell that to the folks that manufacture the several million dollars worth of propulsion on your aircraft.
I've been told that full reverse is EXTREMELY hard on most jet engines. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it if you need to, but a half empty aircraft landing in daylight on a dry 10,000 foot runway is not "needing to".
Strikefinder said:Tell that to the folks that manufacture the several million dollars worth of propulsion on your aircraft.
I've been told that full reverse is EXTREMELY hard on most jet engines. That doesn't mean you shouldn't use it if you need to, but a half empty aircraft landing in daylight on a dry 10,000 foot runway is not "needing to".
CitationLover said:please educate me regarding this. we're just redirecting bypass air and spooling the engine up.
Stealthh21 said:How is it hard on the engines? I have been told the opposite. The effect of Using reverse thrust is negligible.
I agree, long runway nice day land long. In some cases. Try doing that a IAD and see how many go around fly by your head!!
The best reason I can think of is FOD ingestion, since if you've watched an aircraft going slowly with reverse thrust, you'll see all kinds of you know what flying into those fan blades that gets blown up by the thrust going in the "wrong" direction.
blzr said:You guys ever use the TR's during taxi? (just the bucket, no reverse). We used them for the last brake cycle and got 300 more landings out of our brakes than before. 'Course we only weigh 24k as opposed to 50-60k.