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Friday, August 31, 2007
Landings
Several years ago, I was practicing night landings at a certain airport that Scully and I both know. Landing at night has its own challenges, since the only portion of the pavement you can see is the portion lit by the aircraft landing light. I've found it better to not even use the landing light and then I focus on the optical picture of the overall runway as presented by the runway's lights. The technique is to level off and stop the descent just above the runway, hold a nose-high attitude and keep that as the airplane settles onto the runway (this is called "flaring"). If everything is good, you flare a foot or so above the runway and land gently. If everything is not so good, you flare several feet above the runway and do a slam-test of the landing gear.
That night, everything came together and I must have flared an imperceptible height above the runway, for as I held the control wheel back, the airplane slowed. And slowed. And slowed. And then I turned off the runway onto the taxiway, with no idea when the airplane made contact with the runway. "Smooth as glass" doesn't even begin to describe it.
Of course, nobody saw it.
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I still have this letter that some United passenger wrote the company about some landing I made in SFO. I remember the landing actually, a seamless integration between flight and taxi. .like yours. I still have the letter, required reading for any of my passengers who've been there when I've pranged the Cub on.
ReplyDeleteAt least you had witnesses.
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