Landing speed

[FsP Dennis]

I land my 767 with 150-160 kts full flaps

[Andrew The Muffin]

I land my A320 at about 140kts

[Air France]

What about a B747-400??

[Ryanamur]

flyaway wrote:
I just would like to know how to land without having the co-pilot telling me "That's was a hard landing...." or something like
that!!
The plane I use is a CRJ200 from Atlanticsun, I follow the glideslope, my flaps are fully down, my speed is 140, the plane is not heavy,
everything looks (but probably to me only!) good but I'm still too fast or going down too quikly with obviously the " the tires has
substained
damage..." or worst...
Sometime I do a very good landing and I think that finally.......but the next is bad again. Is just like Golf one day you think you are Tiger
Woods and next day you find yourself in the woods!!
Could someone give me a good tip, except the one to remove penalty from FS config!
Thank You!!!!!
(it's easy to take a plane up, but to take it down in a conventional way...........!)

Simply raise your nose 2-3 degree when you're 20 feet off the ground. That should be sufficient to break your steep descent and allow of
a nice touch down. Since you're close to the ground, the aircraft will get into ground effect and this will decrease your stall speed. Another
option would be to add a bit of power... that works in piston aircrafts but it's not the best way to do things with turbines and jet because of
the engine spool time.

Don't forget that the force of your touchdown is derived from your vertical speed (VSI) and not your horizontal speed (IAS).

Phil

[flyaway]

Thank you AKLupine and a special thank you to Ryanamur.
I have to say that I have tried to raise the nose, but, I think my Joystick is a bit loose and every time I try to do that as I dont have any feeling
in the movement either I dont do ti enough or, worst, I do it too much!!! With the conclusion of going up again!!!
Thank you again for your comments Rainamur I'l try to do what you suggest and may be I will get a better Joystick!! (Well... allow me to
find some excuses to my lack of pilot experience)

[Ryanamur]

No problem,

Just remember that 99% of the time speed is controled by pitch and rate of descent is controled by power (after a few seconds, that's how things stabilize in an aircraft). One of the few exceptions to this rule is the flare before landing. Why? Because the initial effect of raising the nose will always be both a reduction of the rate of descent and a reduction in speed... and the plane lands before everything
stabilizes.

Phil



Post Edited ( 04-11-06 16:26 )

[AKLupine]

What Ryanamur just said is explained in excellent detail in the book 'Stick and Rudder' by Wolfgang Langwiesche. It is an older book writen when Mr
Whittle was still tinkering but the information in it is priceless. Worth a go along with your new stick for improving and perfecting your flying
technique.

[flyaway]

Thank you guys

[morten17041989]

Calculate it with the FMC

[RonMac]

m1r3o wrote:
Hi,i land with 150/160 Kts, and i can't land with less then them,but i can see that the other aircrafts land with 130!So what's your landing
speed???thankyou

Whheeeeeeeee.........


Crump.

Usually does it!

R