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Stop the plane I want to get off.
The bottom line for me is being able to stop the plane if I have to abort a takeoff. A second consideration is landings a shorter fields. At my home field I normally have 8,500 ft of runway left when I lift off. Yes 8,500 the runway is over 10'000 ft long.
From the very beginning of the test flying the orginal brakes gave us problems. They overheated and failed a couple of time and were replaced once in the first 10 hours. When I finally got the time flown off and started expanding the envelope they wore out quickly. It got to the point that I could not hold position on run up. That is when I changed to the "Grove" brakes and they are better that the originals ever were. On top of that I can now change pads without removing the wheels.
So when push comes to stop the numbers give you the theroy but the proof is in the stopping.
Ray.
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