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Originally Posted by svanen
As my FI used to say when practicing landing and was a little bit early on the flare. That was nothing compared to when he had captains flying larger jets and they started the flare 30 feet up.  |
yep, been there and almost got killed by one of these good fellas..
He was coming for some refreshing lessons on a single engine plane and the school director asked me if I could go with him for a check ride on the school's 172 (I was scraping hours from every possible corner at the time lol). Mr Captain with 10000 hours under his belt (a good third of it probably spent sleeping in the bunk beds) was giving me the typical patronising lecture on how hard and professional the job of the airline pilot is, so I lowered the volume of my headset to the minimum and let the engine noise cover the rest. I gave him controls right after take off and everything went fine. After a good 20 mins we came in for landing, I handed him the checklist and after a quick glance at it he gave me a typical expression of "we don't really need this sonny, I know what I'm doing"..
We came on final and as soon as we pass the runway end at above 30ft he does his trick of the day: at first I thought he was gonna go for a go-around, but when I saw him chopping throttle and raising the nose to flare I istinctively put my hands on the controls and slammed the yoke and throttle to the firewall. He gave me the captain-to-copilot stare like "how dare you?!?" and I said "we're not in a triple 7 here dear, this thing is gonna crash and burn if we stall it at 30ft above the ground" and gave him a grin and wink. He was silent for the rest of the circuit and only after we taxied to a stop e apologised and asked me not to mention it to his friends there.. aaaah pilots