Heavy Landing
I was watching the planes landing & taking off at MAN today and was quite surprised to see one particularly heavy landing. It seemed to just drop the final 10-20 feet or so and then bounced probably the same distance back up again. The pilot then accelerated back up in the air and went around. I was amazed how high it seemed to bounce and wondered if this is common and that the undercarriage can easily cope with it? Straight afterwards a landrover began a runway inspection although this may have been a coincidence. Some inclement weather had just moved into the area at the time.