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evening from a nice and calm Manchester, a bit different from this morning, came up on the 0645 from Gatwick and it was the worst flight I have ever been on! And I have been on some pretty bad flights (mostly when I used to have a PPL and I was flying myself) we landed very very hard and bounced back into the air which was then followed by a second very heavy landing...

The pilot apologized for both of the heavy landings, I had a chat with the pilot and he said they lost 40 knots of airspeed and just dropped onto the runway !

Evening Spacie..well everyone has to learn sometime!
Being an ex PPL you will no doubt have heard of wind sheer, wonder if the pilot had :-)

Opto, I had expected the flight to be cancelled and when I got to Manchester there were several flights arriving. I watched a few others land and they all had very bumpy approaches but I didnt see any other land hard.

I am not sure it was traditional wind shear, we were not in a thunderstorm and the loss of airspeed happened just as the pilot started to flare. I didnt get much time to talk to him but it sounded like something with no warning and which he couldnt avoid.

Also to put it in perspective although it was a very hard landing (2 actually) I am pretty sure it didnt do any damage at all to the aircraft, we certainly didnt burst a tyre and although we stopped on the taxi way for about 10 minutes I dont think that was for inspection. I have seen films of far harder landings where tyres burst and where wings are damaged. Although it was quiet alarming it was well within what the aircraft is designed to take.

Spacie it does sound like it was a sudden drop in wind speed right at the crucial time....at least the fight was OK just the landing that was the problem. :-))

Was it something like this Spaceman :-) On this occasion the pilot was less lucky and clipped a wing on the go-around.

http://video.news.sky.com/?videoSourceID=1307726&flashURL=feeds/skynews/latest/flash/plane_landing_030308.flv

Kayak, I saw that on TV the other day, very scary. My flight wasnt that bad although we hit the ground a lot harder ;-)

SHOP!

You are the first in K so you are the boss today :-)

In that case I'll do an inventory of keys

As our cheltenham correspondent seems to be AWOL I will give you my tip for today.

Put the house on OUR VIC in the 14:55

I'm back.

If you took notice of my tip you should be very rich now.....

Sorry Jeffers, still a pauper I'm afraid. I was busy sorting out baggage having just returned from 'oop norf' to see the 1st grandanklebiter.

Nearly time to fly home, hopefully it will be a bit calmer this evening ....

Morning.

Good morning, tea up.

Good morning Spaceman and Socrates.....note Socrates even though you are still a pauper...I said hello, lol.

zzz zzz zzz zzz

Like living in a beehive in here :-/

I don't know, first Keaydian likes living in a wheelie bin, now Opto likes living in a beehive!