I would like to hear about what you guys would consider your worst landing. I'm not talking about one that shook you up. I'm talking about the one that was so bad you just got up and walked off the aircraft and didn't think twice because there was no argueing the fact the landing you just made was the worst ever.
Mine was actually just a couple days ago. I was flying the bossmans wife along with the older pilot to SAT in the Merlin. For those of you that don't know the throttles on the merlin have locks that keep you from going into ground idle. You have to pull them up with your fingers to bring the throttles up and over the locks. Anyway I was on final and slowing her down to 130KIAS. I had my hands on the throttle but didn't realize I had pulled the stopps up because I was staring at the airbus right infront of me wondering if he was going to be off the runway in time. As I'm flaring I smoothly pull the throttles back, right past flight idle and (since I had the stops up) into ground idle. It basically feels like hitting a wall. The airplane dropped like I was going for the third wire on a carrier. It's the first time I actually felt the struts do their job as the plane bobbed up and down. The bossmans wife actually screemed in the back! The old pilot and I taxied off and he looked at me, started grinning, and asked if we actually landed or if we were shot down. We could only laugh at it because it was that crappy. There are no instructions you can receive when you do something that bad. It was so far off the charts we just never spoke of it again lol.. On the way home I did grease it right on in though. Couldn't even tell we touched down on that one. It's a shame it doesn't erase the horrible one from earlier
That was the absolute worst landing I've ever had by a long shot.
Duck