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Old 10-30-2007 | 06:22 AM
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My first landing in the CRJ, I damn near broke off the nose wheel because I was trying to land it like the sim. The best advice my OE instructor told me was "Land it like every other airplane you have flown." Once you get over the awkward nose down approach, you get it over the runway and flare it like any other airplane. Get that power out starting at 100ft and close it at the 50ft call, hold your pitch and add a slight bank into the wind and add a slight opposite rudder. If the wind is calm or directly down the runway, you are basically screwed! I MUCH prefer to land it in a xwind, I seem to have success putting 1 wheel down first. Like Boiler said, it takes a few hundered hours to get it down pat. OH, and as soon as you think you got it down, it will turn and BITE you square in the rear end with a pound-on, stick shaker driven impact. Those happen to everyone, so don't worry too much about it!
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