"Ramapriya" wrote

Has anyone here piloted an IL76 often enough to know whether or not it
can indeed do a 3-point landing?

Any jetliner that is landed too fast will touchdown in a
flat attitude...not very desireable though. Jets are not
"flared" for touchdown in the same sense as we do in small
private planes. Unlike "Cessnas", a jet at normal approach
speed will have a positive attitude which means that the
nosewheel is higher than the main wheels, this is the desired
attitude for touchdown. Most often, the pilot simply raises
the nose a couple of degrees to break the rate of descent
and then put it back where it was for touchdown. The FAA
really frowns on "hold-it-off","nose-high" touchdowns.

Bob Moore
CFI ATP B-707 B-727