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Old 18th Oct 2011, 15:47
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I would suggest a visual approach to landing would not go well. I am sure someone could set up for an ILS then autoland with no jet time though. The level D sims don't land like the real aircraft anyway, I can't land the sim well at all.

I also wouldn't underestimate the stress that you would feel under during a manual landing, the sheer speed approaching the runway combined with rate of descent would cause a PPL to overflare IMHO. You could however worst case just run the aircraft into the ground at around 500fpm as you approach touchdown and it would sit down, although not nice. The ground effect will take the edge off (seen in demo'd in an A320 when as a novice jet pilot trying to flare too much).
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