Originally Posted by
AirlineMerc
Sooooo...you’re trained in the 200, but haven’t actually flown it yet?
The floating comes more from trying to bring it down without people’s teeth ending up on the floor. As said previously, you’re chopping the power at 10 feet. They’ll tell you in the sim to chop it at 50, but that’s how you slam it down. The only real way to bring it down on the 1000-footers is if you bring it in with three red on the PAPI....which is against everything you’re trained to do in the 121 world....or if you don’t mind a firm landing. But really, all that matters on a long runway is bringing it down in the TDZ.
I don't know what sim instructors told you to chop the power at 50 ft on the 900, but the instructors always told us NOT to do that. Keep a little power in to the 10 ft call, then slowly (not slamming) bring the TLs to the stops. The problem with the 900 is the extra length and weight added aft of the wing. When power is pulled out, it sorta squats instead of settling.