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Old 13th Oct 2005, 20:58
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US Herk
 
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Heard rumour it was a very heavy landing ... 4g was quoted...
The g-meter in Albert is not for use during landing & any readings obtained from "heavy landings" do not relate to reality.

In flight, it measures where it sits, not the centre of the wings (which "feels" approx .2g more than indicated up front), so is inaccurate.

During landing, it is nothing more than "bounced" deflection of the needle & movement within that is "recorded" on the gauge itself...

Albert is rated for max descent rate of 9ft/sec which equates to 540ft/min - if you impact that hard, you'll likely turn on every emergency exit light in the acft!!

I'm not implying that rumoured landing discussed above was not hard/heavy/out of limits, merely that you cannot discern such from the g-meter in the cockpit.
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