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> ... they would have **30 feet** to spare at the other
> end of the runway, and they decided to land anyway?
Well, "either 560 feet or 30 feet", but in any case it
was a scenario with no margin for failures, except that
I would tend to think that 18 seconds was both long
enough to detect the reverser deployment delay, and yet
allow a bolter ("touch'n'go").
No doubt there... 560' is already cutting it close, IMO.... you'd have to get the plane down before the numbers....