Forgettably good landings & nonexistant inflight troubles

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nitroSkirata
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Forgettably good landings & nonexistant inflight troubles

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Hey,

I have had, over the last couple of flights, noticed two rather strange occurences:

1. i feel like my landings are pretty alright, the passengers are clapping and the copilot congratulates me on rollout. Yet in the post flight page in the carreer windows, it lables it as a "forgettable landing"...

Is that now good as in "that landing was so good, i forgot it even happened" or rather "wow, that was so disasterous, i just want to forget it"?

2. During and after the flight, the captain asks the passengers, to excuse the troubles encounterred during the flight... Yet there was nothing i would consider troubling at all... no turbulences, no high vertical speeds, nothing...

do you have any ideas why those two things happen?

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2) I think if fuel goes below 10%, that is one reason for a announcement

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Is anyone else getting applause after a landing yet it not being properly reported in the post flight notes?

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@maddz:

ok, though that did indeed happen this flight, there was also an inflight announcement to the same effect, even though the fuellevel at that time must have been at around 40% if not more

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hmmm, did you turn the seat belt signs off at cruise?

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nitroSkirata wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 13:42 @maddz:

ok, though that did indeed happen this flight, there was also an inflight announcement to the same effect, even though the fuellevel at that time must have been at around 40% if not more
To add to what maddz was saying about the 10% fuel level; all it takes is for any single fuel tank to hit 10% to trigger the post flight "trouble" announcement.
If you were near 40% total in the aircraft, you could have had one tank at the 10% mark. That would do it.
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Scott - A2A wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 13:34 Is anyone else getting applause after a landing yet it not being properly reported in the post flight notes?

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I've had a few like that.

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I’ve been having quite a few like that. I land at about a -10fpm sink rate, the passengers clap and the co pilot says “wonderful! Wonderful!” Betty thanks me for a smooth flight and says people are talking about me in the terminal, yet it gets recorded as “what a forgettable landing”.
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OK I added this to our TO DO to look into, as this doesn't sound right.

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FAC257 wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 16:29
nitroSkirata wrote: 01 Jun 2020, 13:42 @maddz:

ok, though that did indeed happen this flight, there was also an inflight announcement to the same effect, even though the fuellevel at that time must have been at around 40% if not more
To add to what maddz was saying about the 10% fuel level; all it takes is for any single fuel tank to hit 10% to trigger the post flight "trouble" announcement.
If you were near 40% total in the aircraft, you could have had one tank at the 10% mark. That would do it.
Yet more COTS problems, it seems. (Did it ever get fixed?) That said, pretty much as soon as you hit cruse you're supposed to start the fuel balancing process between tanks, and if my memory serves by the time you get to 40% total fuel the quantity in all 4 tanks should be nearly equal. If you hit 10% in one tank, but have 40% fuel, you're managing the fuel wrong. (And putting too much stress on the main spar.) On the other hand this might not be in A2A's provided documentation.

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