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To: WhoisAlanGreenspan?
Yeah. I would think you're pretty well committed at stall speed inches above the runway.

Nope. As an aviator you always have to consider alternatives, even when landing. Stall leaves you no options.

As to this Aeroflot pilot 1400 hours and never made a manual landing. Even if that's true I can't imagine he didn't know the correct airspeed and rate of decent to touch down.

He had to, and the A/C is dual pilot so his co-pilot was reading it off to him (if they followed procedures). He did was is called "porpoising" where he got into a situation where he was constantly inputting conflicting control commands into the situation and would pull back the stick when he bounced then point the nose to the deck. Truly poor airmanship.

18 posted on 05/16/2019 7:10:00 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: rjsimmon

Why do you need ‘options’ a few feet off the ground? At that point you a flaring and trying to land so what options?


22 posted on 05/16/2019 7:13:16 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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