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Old 10th Mar 2011, 15:55
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catpinsan
 
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"The pilots rated it as just the wrong side of firm, possibly generating some 'bad FDAP numbers'."

The pilots were confident that it was unlikely to be a damage causing touchdown.

The mechanic's inspection did not find anything.

BTW:

My understanding of the 'sink rate' parameter is that it is not simply the vs, but involves a more sophisticated calculation - it is a measure of the landing gear's rate of closure with the ground and resolves both the translationary motion of the airplane (= ~vs) and also the angular velocity of the ldg gr, i.e. rotation about lateral axis, due to the landing flare.
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