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Old 17th Nov 2010, 13:18
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felixthecat
 
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Being Ex Ryanair Captain, there was no difference between the landings in Ryanair than there are in my current NON low cost airline. The average runway that the Ryanair guys fly to are performance limiting and often in very poor weather in Northern Europe. They do a good job and are far more current than 95% of the airline pilots out there.

The "pilots" (and indeed Mr Boeings) perfect landing is on the 1000ft markers on speed, on profile. Trying for a greaser on a short runway or even worse a wet short runway is going to lead to an overrun. The SLF perfect landing is a greaser, but a greaser that takes you off the end of the runway .... then you would have something to complain about.

Ryanair has its faults but the average pilot there is very good....shame about the company!
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