ToiletDuck

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

Tech Maven

it's time to hang it up, ToiletDuck. what a disgrace you are to our profession

AVIVIII

I have had my fair share of carrier landings, but I was a passenger in a 207 and I swear the guy had a 4 point landing. We definitely hit the mains, the nose and the tail all at once. When I got out, the scarring on the tail cone and the bottom of the elevator and the hydraulic fluid leaking from the nose strut confirmed my theories. This also confirmed my other theory that I shouldn't ride in airplanes where the flight crew's total time is less than mine.

FlyerJosh

I set the ELT off once as a student pilot. Best part about it? It was on the first stop af a three leg cross country... flew for about 2.5 more hours with the thing going off (unbeknowst to me). When I returned to my home airport, the tower was asking all of the inbound aircraft to check/recycle their ELT switches... Doh!

ToiletDuck

It was one of those taht when you did it, you have no idea why, you don't know where it came from, you can't even explain it. Just a brainfart and half a second later you're on the ground. It really is the only landing that sticks out in my mind as being a horrible one.

exxcalibur11

Me, have a bad landing? Never. Yah right.... but on your next less than perfect touch down, just tell the passengers "it wasn't my fault, it wasn't your fault, and it wasn't the plane's fault. It was the asphalt.

FlyerJosh

It was that sudden burst of gravity as you rounded out your flare...

NE_Pilot

I like it.

The landing that sticks out of my mind as my worst landing ever was when I used up about 3,000 or so feet (runway was over 5,000' long) bringing down a Cessna 172, a little while after I got my private, never did it before, haven't done it since. I have a much better understanding about energy management now because of it though.

Illini

Archer III with full deflection of the controls during my private training. I heard the stall warning horn go off and I thought I was in ground effect. I remember looking to the side for a better view and my CFI was just watching and waiting. Finally, the stall hit and we had to fall 7 or 8 feet or so it seemed. Once the struts both compressed, I asked my CFI how bad it was. "Well, we have arrived haven't we?"

iflyjets4food

I have bad landings from time to time. I find that a Cessna 310 is one where you are never immune to a bad landing. Even when you are getting the hang of it by flying a bunch of legs in a row, you'll still pound one on. The King Air 350 is one that nobody should be able to make a bad landing in. I've done that too. I guess if you do this every day as a career, you'll make your fair share of awful landings.