Hard landing

#1

Hi am just curious what vertical speed is a hard landing?

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#2

Anything more than -400 is considered hard.

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#3

Anything harder than -200ft is a bad landing in my books. -300 would be hard and -100 is a good landing.

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#4

Ok cool, most of my landings are -200 FPM. I always go -500 in a A330. I just canā€™t seem to handle that aircraft.

#5

If you are landing too hard, go faster and add throttle when you flare. That should help out a little šŸ™‚

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#6

heres a chart i use on the daily:

Landing smoothness chart

Substantial spine injuries : -700 fpm
Co-pilotā€™s retainer fell out : -400 fpm
Like cold toast : -300
Marmelade : -200
Smooth : -150
Butter : -100
Creamy : -50
Silk : -10
moaning : -1

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Hard landing in different aircraft
#7

Please cite the FAA chart where you found that šŸ˜‚šŸ˜‚

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#8

XDDDDD

LOL made it myself

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#9

Ok I will try that with the A330s. I just usually idle at 5-10 feet depending on aircraft.

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#10

Hereā€™s how I judge landings. 1. There are 3 steps too a perfect landing, unfortunately no one knows them. 2. Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing and Iā€™f you can use the plane again itā€™s a great landing

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#11

Iā€™ve found in most aircraft if you throttle up when you flare, not too much, but just right to get -100 landings, it does wonders. Iā€™ve tried it on almost all aircraft and the harder ones to handle are so much easier now!

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#12

Something ATCMemes would make

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#13

A landing can only be considered as hard if the vertical speed at touchdown exceeded the landing gear limits.
After a hard landing, the plane must be inspected and must get reapproved for flight.

For most airplanes, a hard landing occurs when the vertical speed on touchdown exceeds 700-800 feet per minute. A -400 feet per minute touchdown would be qualified as firm but definitely not hard.

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#14

Even the CRJ plane? I just donā€™t touch that anymore.

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#15

I havenā€™t touched the CRJ in the last 6 months. You can give it a try.

#16

Iā€™m too nervous too fly that again.

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#17

To butter the golden biscuit, and to not ā€œknock out the co-pilotā€™s retainerā€ like @KindaAngrySliceOfPie mentioned šŸ˜‚, TOD (top of descent) is a great way to level out your VS and not make sudden, quick changes, making the VS higher.

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#18

I would think that anything above -500fpm would be hard.

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#19

I found the Comment of the year

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#20

I try to aim anywhere imbetween -200 and -100 fpm