some good feedback. From my perspective and only in the fairly recent past I too was at the beginning of my career. I do look down the runway during the flare to give a good feel for the ROD from your peripheral vision. You will soon realise that if you have a landing which is a little firmer than you wanted or floats a bit 9 times out of 10 you cant remember looking down the runway. The result was caused because you were staring at the aiming point and therefore used your effective muscle memory to flare but could not refine that using the visual clues from your periphery. Another common cause of inconsistency is due to a inconsistent ROD in the final 100ft or so. If you target the nominal 700ft/min and flare from that the flare starts from a datum and thus is easier to gain consistency. If however next time you flare at the same datum but with only 500ft/min you can guess the result.
As I was always told, there are no new mistakes and by a training captain don't worry about what they in the back think just worry about what I think.
Well thats my thoughts but if that fails to help 50ft and close your eyes is good advice as well
Last edited by bex88; 12th November 2012 at 07:12.