I would be personally offended if everytime I came in for landing I got called a "retard"

 

LOL!.......Good one!

 

Man, that couldnt be more true, the 900 can be tricky from what I've seen. I just finished SIMs last weeks and for the most part my landings were good. But, on my LOFT flight for some unknown reason, at the 50ft callout I instantly went to idle thrust.........SLAM! I think I was a little soar after that one. O, and I have IOE starting this Tuesday, I certainly will bring the power out much slower at that 50ft call........

 

I just keep resurectting all the old post about first flights and bad landings today! But hey it's my day off, the lady is at work actually making money and I have to catch up on my rumors.

I can't tell if my landings suck or not. It sounds dumb but I think it really depends on where you are sitting. I think when you're sitting in the back any seat on or behind the wing makes for a hard landing. In the cockpit its hard to judge those that are on the fence. (but if you're on the fence than in probably sucked).

I was going into Boston on a nice morning and flew this really smooth visual and was on speed, on glideslope, gettin' in early and makin' my flight home...when I then proceeded to push 22L furthur into the ocean. Landing a fully loaded jungle jet on all three at once makes a weird noise. The captain was a nice guy and kinda just laughed, while the jumpseating captain gave me one of those "you're an idiot" head shakes.

Everyone I've talked to/flown with has a different method/technique/opinion on how to land a jet. I just hope when the nose comes down that theres pavement in front of me.

 

A grease-job landing is 50 percent luck; two in a row are entirely luck; three in a row and someone's lying!

 

You can say that again. Sometimes I go the whole trip without making a "good" landing. Hey, at least they are in the touchdown zone, huh?

 

REAL greasers are luck.... the guy who is trying like crazy to grease it on is the guy who will burn up 4000 feet of runway... then slam on the brakes and dump the reversers .......who gives a crap if you grease it on only to have to get on the brakes so hard that everyone is uncomfortable.... IDIOTS!!!

 

One of my favorites was when I pounded it onto 34 at HPN during a blustery evening in a crj 700. Saying goodbye to the pax at the door as they deplaned, a really fat guy in a huge track suit warm up thing said "that landing hurt" real cocky like. As I smiled and was biting my tongue FA says "we were a little heavy today". Bought her a drink that night!

 

Werent you the pilot that did that to me in the Herc when I was a paratrooper at Bragg? Lol Yeah, u r right. Don't burn up the rw for the perfect landing. Bad technique.

 

It used to be when I got home that I was called that, but I divorced her.