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  • scaryy! 

  • Here in Brazil, at some airports, by the tirth "retard" call u shoud thrust to TOGA.

  • @fielderxei because of short runways?

  • @minimums7 Yes, not only because they're short but because of the buildings or lakes around the airports. "congonhas airport", google it.

  • ma le fanno sempre le checklist anche quella per il parking???

  • DURING INITIAL TAKE OFF...IF THE PLANE'S CLIMB RATE REDUCES BELOW THE COMFORT OF THE AUTO PILOT...IT SHOUTS..."DONT THINK...DONT THINK!!!"

    At 20 feet..if the pilot is retarded enough to chop the thrust...he will THINK!!!!! HOW TO SALVAGE A HARRRRRRD TOUCH DOWN and a NEWS WORTHY ARRIVAL!!! That retard turns into a real retard nuisance call if the pilot tries to out think the GPWS and delays chopping the power levers till say 5 ft...the GPWS gets so confused ..IT JUST SHUTS UP!!!!

  • Ma "retard" sta per togli manetta?

  • @megaflyful bright lighting might distort their ceoncentration to those small buttons LOL

  • @megaflyful so they get more of a challange.....

  • Airbus is a French company. The word retard means to slow down/delay etc. in French. It actually means the same thing in English, and medically it referes to a slow down/delay in development; but we have given it a derogatory connotation whereas the French have not.

  • why are they saying retard?!!

  • @camgirl611

    The old "retard-yoke" again. The Ground Proximity Warning System (GPWS) is designed to inform the pilots about the radar-altitude under 2500 ft. and to give them terrain awareness. The call out "retard" is an Airbus specific feature that announces the ideal moment to set the throttle back to idle for a smooth touch down around 20 ft. above the runway. It has nothing to do with the dirty word in English.

  • cat 3 b

  • You'd spell wrong, recharge *!!!!

  • @SWE370

    No, "retard" is correct. The call out "retard" is an Airbus specific feature of the GPWS that announces the ideal moment to set the throttle back to idle for a smooth touch down around 20 ft. above the runway. It has nothing to do with the dirty word in English.

  • Complimenti video stupendo!!!!! Grazie!!!!

  • moments like these that inspire me to become a pilot :P great video

  • Good work italian pilots!

    Greetings from hungary.

  • very nice video bravoo

  • cat III approach?

  • *sigh* brought a tear to my eye.. LOVE IT!

  • nice video !

  • cool

  • Parabéns Captain! Lindo Video.

  • bellissimo video! belli anche i dialoghi grund-piloti! : )

  • Cool!

  • lo mejorrrr  ,,,, ...que ....chimbaaa

  • foggy day

  • compliments!!!

  • bravissimi 

  • real cool

    

  • Fantastico, de lo mejor que he visto en mucho tiempo

  • Nice video! Smooth land!

    Which company?

  • Why does it say retard?

  • nice ^^

  • alls that is, just an indication from the autopilot to inform the captain that he is a retard perfectly normal

  • hahaha retard. I laughed so hard

  • Hey, retard, retard, bring the thrust levers to idle you retard....LOL

  • At the end they say ''manual brake''. I dont understand this. If you watch the movie at 30 to 35 sec you can see the autobrake (medium) light burning. Can someone explain that to me?

  • i believe even if the autobrake is set to whatever setting it can still be over-ridden by the application of manual braking i.e. the pilot uses the toe brakes (manual brakes) on the rudder pedal... i think they would do it if the runway is dryer than what they thought and may want to pull up quicker using manual brakes... if this is wrong someone please tell me

  • Because the Manual Brake is Hand Brake, like in a car: to stop it during the stopover. But Autobrake is using during landing: to stop the airplane on a runway.

  • It's weird when the computer says retard. It means bring the throttle to idle. Fully reduce power on the engines.

  • Actually in an airbus 320, you move throttles to iddle when the gprs calls fifity (altitude in feet), and on retard you pull up aircraft nose to a correct touchdown angle.

  • Wrong. You´re suposed to bring it to Idle at retard call.

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  • Wrong. Do that and you you´ll past the runway aiming point at least 500m. On normal conditions you bring the levers to iddle around 50ft on a319, 40ft on a320 and 30ft on a321, the flare occurs later.

  • On a normal day in the A320 Airbus recommend you should close the T/L promptly at 30' and there should be no "RETARD" reminder. If you leave it too late the thrust starts to increase to maintain target speed in the flare, increasing the landing distance. On an autoland the RETARD call is an instruction and not a reminder - the A/THR will already have reduced thrust.

  • Thats what pilots usually prefer to do, not what is on the manual ; ).

  • Correct. Tha manual says that landing an airbus is like landing any other aircrafts, and that is done on others aircrafts, and on airbuses.

  • @2129261184 we know it means idle, it's just a joke retard

  • Nice vid!!! ;-) And... anyway, is Milan Malpensa (MXP), not Rome.

  • what means RETARD ???

  • It´s an aural alert from the autopilot that says to the pilot that is time to pull up aircraft nose a little bit for a correct touchdown angle with the runway.

  • ThAnKs for answer :]

    greets from Poland !!!

  • Rome - Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport

  • great video! thanks!

  • LOL i like it when the call out said retard to the pilots i laughed soo hard i couldn't stop laughing

  • because you are retard or what? :)

  • LOL i laughed sooo hard when the call out said retard to the pilots

  • nice video, thanks for sharing

  • what does retard mean minimums? nice vid thanks for posting

  • nice-thanks for posting!!

  • sweet. the subtitles made this a good vid.

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