Originally Posted by
badflaps
Question: Is there any way that the 717 can be landed without driving the mains through the cement? I ride it a lot, seems like 3rd wire every time. Sure does beat the crap out of the 50 seater though. Nice bird.
It can make very good landings consistently.
It can. You just have to get used to doing nothing as you hear fifty, forty, thirty, twenty, ten... Now you can flare. Do something too soon and it plops down.
And if it's an autoland the airplane makes the most minute corrections all the way down to ten feet then it just holds what it has. Most of those are stiff but not back breaking.