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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 6:25 pm
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Originally Posted by fone
Flaps are used for take offs too (was it 25% or 50% for the 747?), so if the plane needs to take off again after touching down (in emergency situations), the flaps are still there, better to have more instead of less?
You commit to the landing very quickly after touching down. Once the reversers are actuated you aren't going to takeoff again.
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Old Jan 5, 2009 | 9:10 pm
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Originally Posted by malgudi
Another related question (re: landing)

Why is that some airlines (LH and SQ, for instance) consistently have the most graceful of landings, IMO? These planes touch down ever so gently, while this isn't always the case in some of the other airlines.

Just curious!
I'm no pilot, but it seems to me the Airbus is a bit easier to grease the landing on than Boeings (can't comment on the CRJ or ERJ planes); that is to say the landings on Airbus seem "softer". It might also be that the airports you fly to on those airlines have fewer issues with crosswinds and other messy landing causing events. Now, LH flies a mixed fleet as far as I can tell. It could also easily be an accident of the type of pilots you get. Lots and lots of variables here . . .

The softest landing I ever had was on AC on an Airbus 340 (I was actually asleep and stayed asleep in the landing) I think and the hardest was on a UA 747 (the masks and a couple bins came down, there was bouncing . . .).
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Old Jan 10, 2009 | 6:35 am
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Originally Posted by gglave
In other words, a 'gentle' landing in the middle of the runway is a bad landing; a somewhat bumpy one right at the start of the runway is a good one.
Exactly correct. The airplane is the least controllable in that fuzzy middle-ground right before the wheels touch the ground. The less time spent in that zone, the better should something go awry.
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