Ask the Captain: How safe is landing in ice snow?

Ask the Captain: How safe is landing in ice snow?, Question: In freezing conditions, with ice on the runway, how safe is the anti-skid braking arrangement on a avant-garde jet? Was there any time you alone a landing due to ice/snow on the runway?

Answer: The avant-garde jet’s anti-skid arrangement is actual good. I accept landed on arctic runways abounding times application the anti-skid arrangement to cautiously stop the airplane.

Pilots accept anxiously to added landing airplanes for descriptions of the endlessly adeptness on the runway. Aerodrome altitude can change quickly, acute acumen and acquaintance by the pilot to actuate whether it is safe to proceed. This arrangement has formed actual able-bodied for abounding decades to ensure the assurance of landing aircraft.

Yes, I accept alone a landing due to aerodrome conditions. If an aircraft advanced appear the braking activity as nil or actual poor, I accept absent to an alternating aerodrome or airport.

Q: I accept noticed that already a even lands, assertive rear allotment of the wings move up and down. What does that do?

A: You are anecdotic spoilers on the wing. Afterwards touchdown, the spoilers acceleration up from the wing, causing lift assembly to about cease. The weight of the aeroplane transfers to the wheels, authoritative the braking abundant added able and acceptance the aeroplane to stop aural the breadth of the runway. This is decidedly important if the aerodrome is attenuated with water, ice or snow.

Q: If application about-face thrust, does the pilot ascendancy the bulk of thrust, or is that preset by the engine manufacturer? And which do you alone adopt to stop with, brakes or about-face thrust?

A: The pilot can access the bulk of about-face advance application sub throttles amid on top of the throttles or afterwards affective the throttles through the about-face “gate.” It is up to the pilot. My claimed best on a dry aerodrome is bound about-face advance and basal autobrake. On a wet runway, added about-face advance and a college ambience on the autobrake. About-face advance is aswell an important agency if landing in ice or snow.

Q: My flight was canceled due to snow at the airport, but abounding added flights are departing. Why?

A: There can be abounding factors that can could cause the abandoning of a flight. Airline acclimate behavior may vary, authoritative it accessible for one airline to abolish operation while others abide to operate.
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