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Originally Posted by flere-imsaho
@PilotMan: took a recently flight from PWM to ORD (737-800, UAL), and once boarded the pilot said that their brakes got a little hot when landing so they might take longer than usual to retract the landing gear when taking off. They said this happens often for this particular aircraft.
True? Feels like something that maybe should be fixed in design.
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The 737 especially tends to get hot brakes on shorter runways. By it's nature it's approach speed is rather fast compared to other planes it's size because of how long it is and how low it sits on the ground. The brakes temps would have been monitored while it was on the ground and a minimum cooling time observed prior to departing again. So yeah, pretty standard stuff.