IOE on the 727, pulled the throttles to idle at 30 feet!! Heard the engineer audibly gasp, captain say "not yet!", then put a crater into the runway at DEN. I think the rollout was less than 500 feet. Never happened again, but in the 72 everything was a crapshoot... Passengers never said a word, at that place you got what you paid for I guess.

 

Now that's why I can't ever roll 'er in at DEN

 

Pounders are everyday occurrences in the ATR. Throw in a crosswind and that airplane is like riding a bull...

 

"Captain, should I notify the tower about the two potholes we placed in the runway"?

 

Or worse yet the owners!

 

Yeah I've had a handful of crap landings in the -200. But the best one was going into PLN...

The FA kept telling us how rude and snobby the pax were being to her, and it was my leg, so I decided to just not give a F about the quality of the landing. I'm not saying I tried to crash, but I just didn't care about (and kinda enjoyed) firmly planting it on the ground and testing the anti-skid.

And the captain got to do his part by riding the brakes all the way to the gate. On that particular plane that day, if you did it just right the brakes would scream like an approaching train and the whole airplane would vibrate. It was great.

I usually don't care about the landing quality in HPN either, just in case the infamous passenger who "doesn't talk to the help" is on board.

 

F/A called up a couple months ago and said just two very sweet words to me: "Brake-check..." You can bet that dude won't be getting out of his seat during taxi ever again

Oh, and Vector2Final - awesome Avatar buddy!

 

lol did you fix your seat height yet?

Went to BOS last trip, coming in on 27 was like a direct 15kt crosswind, gusty, just crap. Beautiful landing, damn near greased it. Next leg into PIT, they cut me loose for a short approach, swung it around, on speed, looking BEAUTIFUL - no wind, I was like man, this is gonna be nice. Thumped it on. I couldn't believe it. I had the captain cracking up, whenever I tank one on I always yell "We're here!!"

 

I can deal with hard landings(it happens to all), but landing hard and have the captain laughing at you is a great way to rebuild your confidence !!!!Talking about kicking a man while he is down

 

Ain't that the truth! This whole month I'm flying the CRJ-200, and this week scheduling calls and asks if I want to swap a 200 trip for some 700 flying. Being the adventurous type...I say sure, why not?

Well, it's been 2 weeks since I've flown the 700, and I just completed 700 differences IOE last month. Later that evening, we're heading into LIT and are cleared for the visual. I get configured in good measure, align with the runway centerline, and am trying to work out in my head the perfect power reduction and flare sequence. Well...turns out I got a bit slow on short final and chopped the power at 30 feet. As the Captain was saying "add power, add power" we thumped one down as hard as I've ever landed a plane.

The captain was a good sport about it and tried to reassure me that we all have those kind of landings now and then. But when the pax were deplaning, one older man yelled into the cockpit, "I think you need to practice some more touch and gos." After everyone left, one of the FAs said she really needed to use the restroom...and "that landing really didn't help." Finally...as if my ego hadn't suffered enough, the captain offered to do the post flight walk around for me (obviously to see if my landing damaged the plane!) I was a bit de-moralized after that evening's events, but for the rest of the trip, my landings were quite decent. Oh...and another thing I discovered...the sims really do a good job of recreating bad landings...all the bad landings I had in the sim felt just like my one in real life