Originally Posted by
Slowhawk
Off topic, seems like maybe 25% of the people I fly with are doing this:
In the landing flare, passing “twenty” they suddenly start slamming the yoke forward and backward fast and maybe 6” of motion. So fast and such large control movements that they cancel eachother out and also you can feel the whole plane shaking from the motion of the elevator.
This seems strange to me. Like in calm wind I’d expect the yoke barely move, and if it did, in one smooth continuous motion.
Am I missing some secret Embraer technique (really) or is this just people over controlling it?
Thank you! Man that used to drive me nuts when I'd see capts doing that. I haven't seen any of my FOs do that yet but it is totally unnecessary, especially in calm winds.