It might be you. I went onto it from a quite different type and found it to be quite reasonable to land under normal conditions. Perhaps you are still using a technique from being on a different type for 20 years. That happened to me many years back on one type where I was using a big flare instead of a fly-on technique.
Initially on the ATR, I had some crosswind difficulty on the rollout due to it not having any nosewheel steering through pedal input and did a couple of landings that had me behind the aircraft directionally on rollout. This did have me worried but at one point it finally came together and that was that. My approach technique was to crab into the flare followed by the big kick with plenty of coordinated wing down for touchdown.
Overall, most landings should be reasonable with the occasional one that aint so great. Greasers...maybe not that many.
It has been a while since I flew it but I will go out on a limb and say that in my experience, if you flown certain types before where you have used this technique, you may find that like those aircraft, the -42 can respond well in the flare with a slight control wheel relaxation after it was moved aft for the flare, although maybe not on an upslope runway.
I did find a few times where I seemed to be putting in corrections via nosewheel steering on the takeoff roll while the other pilot was counteracting with rudder input. Probably was my fault.
Last edited by JammedStab; 23rd August 2014 at 14:42.