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Old 22nd Jun 2016, 10:12
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Shaggy Sheep Driver
 
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AG, a fully held off landing in a nose wheel or tail wheel aircraft is the correct way to it in light aircraft. It won't work for a fast jet landing on a carrier, an airliner in a x-wind onto a wet runway, but for most GA landings it IS the way to do it.

Many nose wheel pilots just don't bother, and plonk it on 3-point over-stressing the nose leg. Which sooner rather than later gives up the unequal battle (see AAIB reports any month you choose).
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