"Dudley Henriques" wrote in message
I have to admit; that bird was about the laziest airplane on approach I've
ever been in :-)) About halfway down the slope I managed to get ahead of
it
somewhere in the vicinity of where I had to be to satisfy the FD109. It
was
the flattest touchdown I've ever made. Had the chief pilot of the line in
the right seat. (Just a crew on board for a ferry flight) At least he
didn't
seem all that scared :-))

I got to watch some sim evaluations for job interview candidates once. It
was wonderfully entertaining. The candidates came from regionals flying
glass cockpit CRJs. They were used to sprightly performance with good power.
Their scanning skills were diminished because of the glass and the
autothrottles. The evals took place in the stretch DC-8 sim. One of
candidates actually landed close to the runway. All of them went out of box
with a ghostly shade of gray. Very humbling.

D.