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Old 1st March 2012 | 06:21
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Dariuszw
 
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Proper jet landing technique

Which is the correct jet landing technique...Is it:

Vref at 50ft over threshold, power to idle, let the speed bleed in flare

or

Vref +10 to Vref at 50ft over threshold, power reduced, land but never below Vref.

Is there some officially prescribed procedure to which someone can point me to ?

My quest is based on reading an article recently about a/c brakes and how often pilots wear out tires and brakes by practicing wrong landing technique. For example brakes on Cessna Citation CE560 should last for 750 landings and actual average is only half of that. So author of this article recommends one of the above mentioned techniques. Yet, reducing speed below Vref during flare is considered a Cardinal Sin by others. What say you....?
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