Another superb video Captain. The Idle gate has bitten me and my fellow flight crew more than once during landing roll out whenever it fails to automatically retract (something you don't want when landing on a short runway). But you've taught me how it's such an important safeguard from a more dangerous condition. Thank you!
on the original AN-24 (camelback) the Beta-mode must have been treated rather differently... I know on some short-field landings at least, it was normal to see the propellers go into reverse pitch around mid-flare (2-3 seconds before touchdown).... not sure whether this was an approved tactic or whether it was something these pilots did, but the landings always seemed very-hard but not quite crash-like... they did manage to stop it on the under 600 foot usable airstrip, which was pretty - impressive.
@@FlywithMagnar it was a short flight, so I think a full flaps takeoff with quite a low fuel loads allowed for that.. I want to say they had only 80 something knots take-off speed, which would mean they had to achieve it in a very doable of just under 10 seconds . an original model An 24 is a very powerful rugged plane, just uncomfortable, loud & and inefficient.
A equivalent lock system is installed on the Fokker-50 (PW-125 or PW-126) and indeed this lock tends to fail. I know of at least two accidents where a Fokker-50 crashed on the runway under same circumstances. IMPOSIBLE !!! unless you remove the savety in order to continiou the operation, and indeed never repair it. The Donier-328prop has only the pilot controlled BetaMode protection by the same type of levers as the mentioned airplanes. (who cares nobody likes the 328 anyhow) Then there is the company Merpati.... i dont know how about now but back in the 90's it was not a company know for its savety record. Magnar you manage to explain fairly complex mather in a for a layman understandable way in a verry short time. Excelent !
[a landing after which you can still use the plane is an extraordinary landing]. Shouldn't this be called a normal landing? And a crash, an extraordinary landing? 🤔
Merpati is now gone for good. After years of failing to negotiate the airlines relaunch, all operating licenses and certificates were permanently revoked and the airline was dissolved on 20 February 2023 (source: wikipedia)
