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> Either the pilot mildly goofed the flare and "dropped it in" slightly at the end It's funny, I'm sure it's much more difficult in a plane, but this sounds li
by BobaFloutist 3y ago
> Either the pilot mildly goofed the flare and "dropped it in" slightly at the end
It's funny, I'm sure it's much more difficult in a plane, but this sounds like such a similar experience to thinking you've braked smoothly but accidentally having your final complete stop become sharp because you've overestimated how much speed you've shed.
- psunavy03 3y agoIt's more or less the same thing. You look down the runway as you break your descent rate, and then use your peripheral vision to kind of ease the aircraft down smoothly. But the whole time you're doing this, you're bleeding airspeed and eventually the aircraft doesn't want to fly any more. So if you end up just a smidge higher than you thought . . . clunk. If you really screw it up, you need to go around, or else you'll have a hard landing. Which is embarrassing at best and career-ending at worst depending on what it does to the aircraft.