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I had a Captain tightening every muscle in his body as the count down went 100...50-40-30-20..10...........ah and a nice touch. Then the next trip I balloned a landing it was nasty.
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Come on guys, the Saab isn't nearly that bad. The Dash has much stiffer landing gear. Not that I'm saying that I have never had a landing less than a greaser, but it's all about power management and making darn sure it is absolutely lined up with the runway with no side-slip. If you get a handle on those two things you will do pretty well.
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Well, the good thing about the 145 is that you have the potential for two bad landings--one when you slam the mains, and another when you forget to flare the nose and slam that one too.
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Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
(Post 343000)
Yeah, those EWR controllers love it when you Q400 boys slow to 130 still 10 miles out and float for days before touching down 3000 feet down the runway and then rolling all the way to the end. Watching those "smooth" landings just makes their day;)
I beat one into 11 today at EWR so I could clear before R, when we deplaned we had an older woman who must have been at/near/around 100 who needed an aisle chair to get off because she was too frail. I felt bad, probably took 5 years off her life. |
Originally Posted by freezingflyboy
(Post 343020)
Landing in Lake Chuck, LA (5000' runway) during some rain in the E145 I put it down very firmly and got on it to get stopped. As we taxi to the gate the captain says "nice landing, I hate getting seat cushion up my butt watching you guys float trying to grease it onto a short runway". So I'm feeling pretty good about my "performance" landing. As the pax deplane, I'm turned around in my seat just in case anyone wants to look past the FA at the 2 goons who actually hurled them through the air at 450mph in a 50,000lb aluminum tube. As this one guy gets off he looks up into the front office and says "you boys practicing for those carrier landings?". Before I can say a word the FA says "well the option is an evacuation and a campfire in those trees over there...so I'd say it was a pretty decent landing". Guy just mumbled and walked off:D
Those are the FA that you just LOVE .. Classic now if every FA was quick like that |
Yep - you never hear it for a greaser - but no pax will let you live down a pounder...::shakes fist::
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At least on an airliner the pax don't fly with you every leg of the trip, and don't know you personally. 91 flying can make you grow some thick skin quickly. If we had a '"firm" touchdown every once in a while we always tried to throw a comment in while the pax where getting off like: "tower had us checking the firmness of the runway"
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I had a touch and go around a while back, it was not pretty.
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The one thing about swapping airframes almost weekly (the CRJ-200 into the -700/-900 or vice-versa) is that consistently good landings are hard to come by...give me two weeks in either bird and I'm good - it's frustrating having to re-learn an aircraft twice monthly!!
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Originally Posted by Jetjock65
(Post 343536)
At least on an airliner the pax don't fly with you every leg of the trip, and don't know you personally. 91 flying can make you grow some thick skin quickly. If we had a '"firm" touchdown every once in a while we always tried to throw a comment in while the pax where getting off like: "tower had us checking the firmness of the runway"
edited to say: say that ten times quick!! |
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