I’ve got about 4500 hours PIC in the 757. I wouldn’t be surprised if they dropped the nose on after touchdown. If you got into full reverse without “flying” the nose down gently it will slam on. I always had my hands right by the yoke all the way through the derotatation when the F/O was flying and saved a few slammers over the years.
Best technique is to open the reversers on landing but don’t go above idle until the nose was down. Also had the nose pop up once on a landing by the other guy as well. To this day I still am not totally sure what caused that other than the spoilers deploying with the nose up during touchdown.
Last edited by Pilot DAR; 21st Aug 2019 at 22:50.
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