Curious, what determines whether or not I use flap 30 or 40 on takeoff and how do I decide what autobreak setting to use??Brad Zimmer

1] Most airlines use flaps 30, others use flaps 40. It's an SOP thing mostly (Standard Operation Procedures). 2] It is ALWAYS set to RTO (Rejected Takeoff), no one ever uses 1,2,3, etc for this...[h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/betaimg.jpg

Flaps 30 or 40 on take off - I've never used anything greater than flaps 10. Does the original poster mean landing particularly in view of his secondary question regarding autobrake requirements?Andy B

Andy-Oh! Good CRM, Andy! I read the question and missed the "takeoff" part too- and assumed landing...Yeah- I think he meant landing....Sheesh..a flaps 30 takeoff.... yikes! :-lol

Hehehe, YES I thought he meant LANDING ugh. For takeoff Flaps 1 is pretty standard as well as flaps 5 in the USA. You want to use more flaps depending on the runway conditions, runway length etc. Most runways flaps 1 will do just fine but at places like KSNA a flaps 5 TO is required for a Noise abatement TO.. [h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/betaimg.jpg

I actually did mean landing, not take off. I never knew what to put (30 or 40) on landing or the Autobrakes for landing.

Just use Flaps 30. Autobraking is your choice, if the runways is LONG use 1 or 2, if short crank it up more. 2-3 are I assume used most often...[h4]Best Wishes,Randy J. Smithhttp://www.precisionmanuals.com/images/betaimg.jpg