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Question on saving a botched landing

by es330td <es330td@[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Jun 18, 2008 at 08:31 AM

Doing touch-and-gos last weekend I flared on landing and ballooned
more than I expected.  I realized that I didn't have the throttle 100%
out and was consequently carrying more power than I would have
normally been.  Like a doofus, I went ahead and pulled power out all
the way and dropped the plane onto the runway from higher than I would
normally have liked.  I didn't hurt the plane (thank goodness) but it
made me think about what I should have done.

I want to talk through my thinking and get opinions.  I will, of
course, discuss this with my CFI but I won't see him for two weeks and
wanted it discuss it sooner than then.

First of all, there were almost no winds and I had almost 4K feet of
runway left to do whatever I was going to do.

My first, obvious choice is to go around.  If there had been any kind
of wind that is what I would do and just call missed approach.

Assuming that I would rather just land the plane, I am trying to
figure out how to get back to a configuration to land.  Because my
speeds were what I always target, to get the speeds down with extra
power means I had to be coming in a little nose high.  Taking away
excess power, full flaps, nose high is a recipe for an immediate
stall. It seems to me that what I could have done would be to lower
the nose a little and then pull off throttle and simply fly straight
forward until the plane touches down.  I don't really see that I can
pull the nose up to lose speed because I've already given up all my
descent speed by that point.  In this somewhat messed up approach, is
there a better way to handle it?
 




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Question on saving a botched landing
es330td <es330td@[EMAI  2008-06-18 08:31:34 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Andy Hawkins <andy@[EM  2008-06-18 16:00:49 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Jim Stewart <jstewart@  2008-06-18 09:47:32 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Bob Noel <ihatessppaam  2008-06-18 12:48:25 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
jimp@[EMAIL PROTECTED]   2008-06-18 20:05:03 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
"Gordy" <gyo  2008-06-18 17:33:04 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Dudley Henriques <dhen  2008-06-18 21:34:28 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Jim Logajan <JamesL@[E  2008-06-18 21:14:42 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Dudley Henriques <dhen  2008-06-18 22:30:10 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
"Peter Dohm" &l  2008-06-19 09:36:33 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Michael Ash <mike@[EMA  2008-06-18 23:18:01 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Michael Ash <mike@[EMA  2008-06-18 23:29:54 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
es330td <es330td@[EMAI  2008-06-19 05:21:38 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Dudley Henriques <dhen  2008-06-19 09:43:53 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
es330td <es330td@[EMAI  2008-06-19 08:37:30 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Dudley Henriques <dhen  2008-06-19 12:37:27 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
es330td <es330td@[EMAI  2008-06-19 11:36:02 
Re: Question on saving a botched landing
Dudley Henriques <dhen  2008-06-19 14:51:55 

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