One technique that seems to work well is to slowly start reducing power at the 50ft callout, but don't completely wipe it. Keep just a touch of power in until the 10ft call and then walk it all out and decrease pitch by 1 degree or so and it rolls on pretty nicely. One mistake a lot of people make is setting the pitch too high in the flare, especially when trying to slow a high descent rate, that just drives the mains into the ground. Oh well...good luck!

 

i got just about 300 hours in it but most of it was on quick flights in between san juan and tortola (about 60 miles) so i got my fair share of landings in it. The one thing i can say about landing it is dont ever think you figured it out. once you think you have it will prove to you that you dont know how to land the thing.

 

True dat. When I was in St. Maarten I saw an Eagle ATR bounce it in there. I was glad to see Im not the only one that does that That Caribbean flying looks like a blast though!

 

Buffalopilot....we've all been there My worst was coming into RIC on my first flight after IOE...clear as a bell with minimal wind, just like everybody says....that's when it'll get you. Didn't transition my vision down the runway early enough...WHAAAAM. Other time I was nonrevving to MCO on a 757, biz traveller sitting next to me who said "Let's see how he does" when we were on final. It was a firm landing, but not bad in my opinion. Biz traveller chuckled and said "Ohhh nooope....you've gotta go talk to this guy." I just told him that wasn't bad...TRUST me.

 

Man I pranged one on in the Dash in PWM so hard all the bins opened up. Of course it was clear and a million. It happens to all of us many more times than we care to admit.
A few of us finally had a competiton going. We called them dime landings. We'd place a US dime in between the ITT gauges and you had to make sure you kept it from popping out when you touched down. We finally got good enough with the US dime that we transitioned to the Canadian dime. Now that was hard!!

 

That's what you get for starting in the window seat!
I thought I'd try a VMC Cat IIIa from the right seat without the HGS by using the associated instruments. It never dawned on me that I wouldn't have the flare cue like in the HUD. You bounce pretty high hitting at 750 fpm.

 

I'm probably posting to keep my account active...but here goes.

I managed a landing in the 200 bad enough that the tower controller said, "Did that hurt?"

 

"but in the 72 everything was a crapshoot... "

Ha....that was my experience as well.

 

I had something similar happen in JAN about a month back. It was a night visual to 16R with a bit of a right crosswind. When we got to about 50' I caught a pretty nice gust and had to really work to put the thing on centerline without a sideload. I went ahead and put it down somewhat firmly on the upwind wheel just so I didn't lose too much airspeed and control effectiveness with all the dramatics caused by the gust.

As we taxiied in, I actually felt really good about the approach and landing. Night visual, FD off, to a runway without an IAP and landed it safely with a gusty crosswind. But of course, once the door opened nobody seemed to care about any of that. One older man stopped by, looked at me, and said "must have been an FO landing!" I was a little annoyed by that, but what really made me angry was when an older lady stopped by the FA and told her "tell the pilot he gets an F!"

Yeah, I wasn't about to have that. I said "Ma'am, I landed the plane, why don't you tell that to me?" She kind of stammered for a minute (I don't think she thought I'd turn around), and then said "Well uhhh...the bags in the overhead weren't the only things that shifted during that landing!" The CA turned around at that point and told her that it was blustery outside and that the landing was fine.

I held my tongue, but I really wanted to ask her when the last time she landed a jet in a crosswind was...

 

I would hope you would hold your tongue. Those pax happen to pay your salary, and I would think you would be a professional whilst in uniform. What happened to the old saying "The customer is always right"? I know it sounds nitpicky but you should grow some thicker skin, have fun with it instead of it making you all upset. Your paid to land in a crosswind, hence the good view you have up front.