Prop Strike?

[GeeBee]

 

[RoundTwo]

That’s an everything strike.

[hubcap]

Everyone with access to the internet has seen that crappy landing. I  bet the pilot wishes he could have that one back. When he came back around he greased it in. 

[GeeBee]

It was an IOE, and the Check Captain landed it the second time. It was part of the LCA job I hated most because realistically, when you let the new guy land, the last 50' you're just along for the ride until it goes wrong, then you got to fix it. Really hard to smash a Boeing wide body, they are usually puddy cats.

[0TreeLemur]

The thread title is misleading.  Since pure jets don't have props, I think that the correct term is "pod strike" when the engine enclosure hits the ground or something else. 

[Jim Peace]

On 4/25/2024 at 9:07 PM, GeeBee said:

Really hard to smash a Boeing wide body, they are usually puddy cats.

I prang one on every now and then....between all my Mooney flying and other stuff, helicopters etc,,, and having to switch back and forth from the 757 and the 767 sometimes in the same night there are times where I just don't know exactly where the feet are at 6am after a 12 hour night....and honestly I don't care at that point...

I still remember a bad one I had on a 747 freighter years ago....of course it was full of jumpseaters......

[Shadrach]

On 4/25/2024 at 7:01 PM, hubcap said:

Everyone with access to the internet has seen that crappy landing. I  bet the pilot wishes he could have that one back. When he came back around he greased it in. 

Is it procedural that the flying pilot remains the flying pilot after trying to bend the airplane? I certainly would want the chance to wipe that off the books after going around.. 

That might be blamed on any number of phenomena but it looked to me like he simply started the flare late. Hard to be on your “A” game after an intercontinental flight.

[GeeBee]

1 hour ago, Jim Peace said:

I prang one on every now and then....between all my Mooney flying and other stuff, helicopters etc,,, and having to switch back and forth from the 757 and the 767 sometimes in the same night there are times where I just don't know exactly where the feet are at 6am after a 12 hour night....and honestly I don't care at that point...

I still remember a bad one I had on a 747 freighter years ago....of course it was full of jumpseaters......

Ah come on, the 767 is the easiest landing airplane ever built. Get it 10' idle the power. Plane does the rest.

[GeeBee]

3 minutes ago, Shadrach said:

Is it procedural that the flying pilot remains the flying pilot after trying to bend the airplane? I certainly would want the chance to wipe that off the books after going around.. 

That might be blamed on any number of phenomena but it looked to me like he simply started the flare late. Hard to be on your “A” game after an intercontinental flight.

He let it get slow, developed a excessive sink rate and did not have the mash to save it. Speed is life.

[Shadrach]

3 minutes ago, GeeBee said:

Ah come on, the 767 is the easiest landing airplane ever built. Get it 10' idle the power. Plane does the rest.

I’m pretty sure there’s a ruler around here somewhere…

[GeeBee]

Plane calls 10' increments out of 50' for you. The cadence is your clue of sink rate.

[Fly Boomer]

2 hours ago, Jim Peace said:

..of course it was full of jumpseaters......

Is that better or worse?

[GeeBee]

They never let you forget.

[Jim Peace]

1 hour ago, Fly Boomer said:

Is that better or worse?

if they are your crashpad roommates it is way worse......

[Jim Peace]

1 hour ago, GeeBee said:

Plane calls 10' increments out of 50' for you. The cadence is your clue of sink rate.

again.....at 6am after 12 hour duty day and bad catering and lousy hotels you really just dont give a flying F.....LOL

[Hank]

3 minutes ago, Jim Peace said:

again.....at 6am after 12 hour duty day and bad catering and lousy hotels you really just dont give a flying F.....LOL

That's why I fly for ME, and not for work!!

Oh, and my Mooney won't stay aloft for 12 hours, no matter what Jonathan Paul did in his E . . . .

[cliffy]

Luckily I only got surprised once when I was a LCA (that was in a 757, saved it at the last few seconds)

On a 727 you where never sure of any landing, You could do 3 in a row greasers and the next was surprise.

As a 121 A&P on 747s (rope start models)  in an earlier life I wonder how many tires they changed that night.  

[Hank]

39 minutes ago, cliffy said:

On a 727 you where never sure of any landing, You could do 3 in a row greasers and the next was surprise.

Oh, so just like a Mooney?  

[GeeBee]

Yeah the 727 was a box of chocolates.