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Old 28th Nov 2006, 09:23
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You proably don't want to hear this, but landing a plane is something of a black art. It is not something that can be taught by numbers but only by experience. On a nice calm day with the little wind coming straight at you then the job is to make the rubber kiss the tarmac nicely. The sad part is that in the UK this is rarely the case. In a decent crosswind or with windshear about it becomes a case of getting it down safely and quickly. The old phrase that all pilots know is "A good landing - passengers walk away. A great landing - the plane can be used again afterwards"

As I say this is not really what you want to hear, but as a landing is only as good as the pilots experience, draw some comfort from the fact that even a humble ppl will have carried out several hundred landing during training alone, the guy flying you in an airliner will have done thousands of them.
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