Originally Posted by ironbutt57
Well, it didnt result in an accident, but I did observe a rather "firm" one recently in Dubai, followed by a cocked nosewheel on de-rotation which resulted in a large amount of smoke...
Be careful to judge a landing on the MD11 just by the amount of smoke you see generated on wheel spinup:
Several times I heard comments from other aircraft about our landings because of the amount of smoke, while the landing was absolutely normal and not firm whilst sitting at the controls on the flightdeck.
As for the nosewheel... hard to tell what happened there.
Cheers,
DBate