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Old 7th Apr 2024, 13:01
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Jwscud
 
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Originally Posted by AerocatS2A
At 100 to 200 feet, pick your visual aim point and make it stay in the same spot on the windscreen.

At 50 feet, do nothing.

At 30 feet, hold your nerve, do nothing.

At 20 feet, gentle flare, eyes down the runway.

Thrust to idle somewhere between 30 and 10 feet depending on the energy of the aircraft.
With apologies to Aerocat, this is NOT the FCTM technique and if practiced in a heavy 321 will lead to a hard landing or your colleague taking control.

What you are describing is all part of building up your experience and understanding - you must already have developed a safe and repeatable technique to be released to the line. Ask your colleagues in the other seat for feedback after your sector as they will have a better sense of what you are doing than we can have from your descriptions.

if you are having confidence issues surrounding your landings, speak to a company training captain.
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