thanks. using that tonight at the poker game...
It says that on landing pretty normally too. I tell my Airbus pilot friends it's critiquing their landing."When the plane was moving faster than 92 mph, an audio alert in the cockpit announced “retard” repeatedly, as if directing pilots to slow down the plane. The plane reached 188 mph and it briefly bounced 15 feet in the air, investigators said. "
that's what they get for flying a plane with a keyboard instead of a yoke....
OT. where can I get a .wav of an airbus going 'retard retard retard'? I could use that on my phone for sooooo many things.
If you're flying, keep flying.
While the crew coordination and procedures were lacking, the main cause of the incident (IMHO) was the aircraft telling them to retard the throttles AFTER V1, and airborne. Once past V1 you establish a positive rate, gear up and cancel the audible.