Thread: The right way?
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Old November 8th 05, 12:00 AM
Bob Gardner
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Default The right way?

Be happy. You only get a greaser if you are a tad too fast. A max efficiency
landing is a plunker, and if there is any water on the runway it is just
what the doctor ordered.

Bob Gardner

"Steve" wrote in message
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Back in the training days of my PPL I had the bad habit of landing with a
some throttle still in (instead of power idle) and with little pitch
attitude. But the landings were always pretty smooth. Now I do what the
instructor taught me: cut off all power before threshold and raise the
nose
wheel well up in the air during flare. In the final part I get the stall
warning tweet (as the instructor told it should be) and the result is a
somewhat rude main gear contact if the timing of the flare is not perfect.
Sure the plane stops in very little space (we operate on a 2000 feet
runway), but I get the feeling that I don't do it the right way since very
seldom I grease it out as I did before. Is just a matter of refining the
technic or am I missing something?