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Old 5th Sep 2014, 07:12
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mad_jock
 
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And if its any help to your ego I have over 20 000 landings under my belt and in the works machine the other day I raped the runway. Just didn't time the last bit of the round out and left it what felt like 20mm to low. This was in CAVOK and 4 knots of wind. Its always the good wx days which I produce my worst.

Had to go and do the walk of shame and say sorry to the punters.

Experience just alters the ratio of good -> acceptable -> poor.

It never completely gets rid of the poor ones though. But we keep trying to be perfect but never succeed.

I have posted this before

Your proberly missing the vital phrase.

First of all get the instructor to show you the landing picture.

As you fly down the approach make sure your trimmed.

As the runway appears to starts moving towards you pitch the nose up to the straight and level attitude.

As the runway sides start coming up towards you pitch to the previously demonstrated picture while putting the power to idle. Waggle the rudder pedals so the instructor thinks your actually doing something with them.

Hold the attitude. Now this is the important bit.

In a loud clear voice say "get down you whore"

Once the aircraft has done as its told hold the same picture by increasing back pressure then lower the nose gently to the runway while continuing to pretend you know what your doing with the rudder.

Jobs a goodun.

PS ladys can substitue bastard instead of whore

PPS this method works up to 10 tons in my experence
It was just the bang of impact came before I could tell it what to do
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