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I raised those questions to highlight that the objections to flap3 landing were voiced without giving much thought. In any aircraft flap full landing is more difficult because full flap position is almost all drag. It requires higher pressure on control column to change the attitude needs more judgement to arrest the higher sink rate. Flap3 requires less flare and therefore easier to judge and execute. This is the reason most abnormal landings are in flap3.Words used by Airbus are "not to degrade handling quality". To look at it otherway if inexperienced guys were trained for Flap3 landings from the begining they will find it more difficult to do flap full landing.