Bad Landing
03-18-2008 | 02:22 PM
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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.
03-18-2008 | 03:06 PM
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From: whichever one makes you more angry
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.
03-18-2008 | 03:07 PM
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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.
03-18-2008 | 04:18 PM
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From: Cessna 152 Captain
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
Those are the FA that you just LOVE .. Classic now if every FA was quick like that
03-18-2008 | 05:45 PM
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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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03-18-2008 | 06:11 PM
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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!!
03-18-2008 | 06:13 PM
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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"
edited to say: say that ten times quick!!
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