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Old 29th Nov 2012, 09:20
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no...because as you float along, using your ''normal'' flare technique and not quite touching down,, you panic and push the plane on, but oops, you push too much and you land flat.
Good to see you hold your professional pilot colleagues in such high regard An alternative to your suggestion, that most of us mere mortals might carry out, would be to hold the attitude and allow the aircraft to settle. If it's going to land long then we go around. No need for theatrics and certainly no need for pushing forward, which we've been taught not to do from day 1 (despite some recent events in NRT )

the FAA does require minimum flap for jets to reduce noise, but it is a legitimate landing flap setting not some reduced flap setting just out of your head.
Who suggested anything of the sort? What we're talking about is going from flap 30 to flap 25 in your 757/767 or from flap 40 to flap 30 in a 737. They're 'legitimate' flap settings, not 'just out of our heads' and achieve what the OP was asking about.

Since you're so concerned that we're doing non-standard things and this is going to end in tears, please point me to the Boeing Training Manual where it discusses using asymmetric thrust in any part of operation, bar trying to stop on slippery runways. I'm willing to do so with reduced flap settings.
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