Never get overly confident with your skills! ( Mooney Bravo m20m)

[JohnB]

Havent bounced a landing in years. (That being said, I’m sure one will happen  ) I do find that having an AOA and LHS  ales landings almost too easy along with @donkaye’s landing video if you haven’t yet seen 50+ times, it’s worth it! 
 

I was on a commercial airline flight and the pilot really landed hard, which I’m sure was not intended,  I thought…” I could do better than that!” LOL (Not!) still goes to show with even a gazillion hours, there’s some landings that just are not going to be great.  But Don’s video, an AOA and a LHS dramatically cut down on the bad ones, even in vastly different weight and wind conditions. 

[Pinecone]

On 4/23/2022 at 1:29 PM, GeeBee said:

One time I as a new Captain on an MD-88 I was on approach to LGA runway 4. Nice day, wind down the runway, I had the speed and path nailed. I thought, "I finally got this airplane nailed" it looked soooooo good. I flared and BLAM! I hit so hard I dissipated all the energy and made the turn off before RWY 13-31. I exclaimed to the F/O "What did I do!" He shrugged his shoulders and said, "It all looked good until the touch down, I don't know". So take heart, at least you did not do it in front of 142 people......until you confessed to us.

My older airline pilot friends used to say that the 727 was known to every so often do that, just to keep the pilots humble.

Everything perfect, then WHAM.