Originally Posted by
old,not bold
He moved from Bahrain, flying the Gulf Air VC10, to Abu Dhabi to fly the Islander....
He was rightly proud of the way he could land a VC10 like a feather; I was told that he would ask the FO and FE to let him know when the wheels touched down.
Strange; we had a pilot at Farnborough called
Ken Mills who always landed the Comet 4 like that; never a trace of smoke from the tyres.