A 330 Wheels down speed and noise
On a recent trip on a brand new 330-200 I noticed on the IFE screen the speed reading at 250 mph when the wheels came down. Is this is the normal speed for wheels down? We landed about 2 minutes later. The noise of the wheels coming down were relatively noisy (louder than other aircraft i flew on a few days earlier) but not too loud to startle anyone
On the outbound journey a few days later the aircraft did a rapid descent after holding a while and this time when the wheels came out there was a lot of noise and very solid thunks followed by some banging noise of a longer duration. Unfortunately I was not on the screen that would give the speed. I looked around and the noise seem to have startled a lot of people. We landed barely 45 seconds later in what seemed was a higher speed than what is normal. This was followed by rapid braking which was then released and a very long roll out.
In the past I have noticed this sound on wheels down in 330 but it is absent in the 320 or 737