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Old Aug 8, 2018, 5:21 am
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Waterhorse
 
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There’s some skillets of truth in the above comments but also a lot of comment that is not quite right.

A “good”landing is one at the correct speed, in the correct place and within the touchdown parameters of the aircraft. A smooth landing does not indicate a landing. A smooth touchdown is the icing on the cake but it is not important. In big aircraft with the exception of big deltas like the Vulcan and to some extent Concorde there is little benefit in aero braking, the brakes do the braking and the spoilers ensure that the weight of the aircraft is on the wheels, the comments about carbon brakes from TinKicker are spot on. Auto brake is used and is planned for a certain exit, sometimes ATC ask us to vacate expeditiously and we change the plan and brake harder to get off the runway quickly. Crosswind landing technique is not different to normal landing except to say that you remove the drift in the flare, but the flare is normal for most big aircraft - there are not many that use the “wing down” technique as big engines in pods mean there is a higher likelihood of a pod scrape if this is done.

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