Originally Posted by
ilinipilot
I fly the 717. I agree with ftb, when you hear 10 feet don't do anything. If you flare then you just drive the back wheels into their pavement. Another issue is we are all so scared about landing distance and heating up the brakes that we as a fleet are More concerned with getting her on the ground and stopped without using brakes. Also the auto throttles come back at a nice slow pace but if you try and get the plane to touch down early in the zone you lower the nose and speed up. Then you float thru the zone and end up not being able to hold the flare at ten feet.
Overall great plane excellent for the missions it is on
Retard at 30-20 feet and below 10 feet to go not only release flare back pressure but pitch forward slightly... I've flown with many DC9 guys and this what I've been told. It works about 50% of the time