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Old 26th Oct 2011, 23:52
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cirr737
 
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Can definitely not agree with generally retarding the throttles at 20-30 feet.
Sure, it gives you consistent "ok"-landings, but from my experience (around 1500 landings) the best landings resulted from keeping some power (maybe 45-50% for F40 on a 733) until 10-15 feet with a late break at around ten feet.
Consistently produced very gentle touchdowns right at the 1000ft-marker.

However, one should be absolutely aware of the plane's energy-status when doing such a late break, or
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