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Old 26th April 2008, 10:58 PM
D Chan D Chan is offline
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Originally Posted by Jared F View Post
Could a reason for this to be to slow the plane down? I thought it was weird as most aircraft on approach generally let the gear down at about 2000ft or so.

Thanks, Jared
While I don't know about the A330, it is possible to lower the gear early to 'slow down' on the 737ngs.. the max gear down limit is somewhere around 280 knots from memory.

Last edited by D Chan; 26th April 2008 at 11:07 PM.
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