Quote:BriT wrote:
Oh yeh saw this video before.This is what the pilot said from a person at BAV who knows the captain.

I've spoken to the PIC on that flight, and heres the story.

The winds where E-SE about 10kts, gusting towards 20kts if he recalls correctly, and as its an Airbus, the aircraft automaticaly maintains
a speed regardinjg the wx inputed into the MCDU.

The autothrottle didn't like the conditions at the time and was struggeling to maintain speed, on "RETARD", the wind dropped
off quite a
bit, whiched caused the heavy landing and bounce.

Unfortunatly Virgin's SOPs don't allowed the dis-connecting or manual override of the speed control, unless told 160kts to 4, otherwise its
down to the automatics.

Regarding the rollout, the number 1 thrust reverser on G-VSSH was inop, so only 2 and 3 where avalible and with autobrake LOW, ment
a rollout to Taxiway T, which is a 90 degree turn, not like LHR's RET's. So the aircraft had to slow down to 7-10kts to take the corner, the
600 series of the A340 are very long, so you have to do these turns at low speed, to prevent loosing any wheels to gods green earth,
which on a runway, isn't normally a good end to the days flying!