bsieker,
Please, also read the thread!!
My reply was to PBL, in an answer to his statment that things were NOT normal during flare. I disagree, things were not normal for us, but for the pilots nothing "abnormal" was happening. Only after touchdown and reverse on engine #1 was selected "things" went bad (for the pilots).
For some of us, maybe "things" started to go bad even before takeoff in Porto Alegre.
But thanks for your effort on trying to educate me.