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Originally Posted by deserteaglle Now when you say bad landing...how bad we talkin'?
Like swervin' down the runway bad, or bouncin' a couple times bad? |
It's very hard to bounce an CRJ (which is what I think is being flown here). When you get enough weight on the wheels to start a bounce the wing explodes and takes away all the lift.
No - there are 2 types of bad landings in the CRJ. Flare too high and run out of airspeed. Worse case you get the stick shaker (well worse case you get the pusher, I've heard rumors of that) and it hammers onto the runway. Don't flare at all and hammer it into the runway. I've done both - although so far I've never had the shaker.
What works for me? First of all you have to get used to the fact that the plane appears to be on a suicide mission when in the correct approach attitude, very nose down. At 100 ft I pull out a little power, at 50ft start to GENTLY flare and pull out the power so that at 20 feet you have no power left and you're in level pitch attitude through 10 feet and then it's just keep flaring till it rolls on. Early on I flared too high because it just looked all wrong. Later on I flared too late bcause I was over-compensating holding the nose down attitude. Oh yeh - once you get the flare right and have the right pitch attitude at 10 feet you'll over flare and balloon a few times, that goes away after a while as well :-)
You'll get it - some people are born to land CRJs, for most of us it takes a little while.......