The perfect approach

"Capt.Doug" wrote in message
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I bled off the extra airspeed and more in the flare. The touchdown was
sweet. There was just a hint of a bunny-hop before the ground-spoilers
popped, but the runway is so bumpy that the passengers probably didn't
notice. Without moving the throttles from idle, I popped the reversers and
let it roll to the end of the runway. We rolled onto the taxiway without
using the brakes. It was a perfect idle-thrust approach from
top-of-descent
to the gate.

I spent the rest of the day sitting with my crew at a bar on the beach
enjoying the little things in life. Over the bar was a television. The
folks
on the television were surrounded by snow. I bet their day wasn't near as
perfect as mine.

D.

No problem. We do it all the time in sailplanes. Flying out of Truckee,
California we will typically start our final glide home from 60+ miles out
and 17,900 msl and cross rocks, trees, and Lake Tahoe, then some more rocks
and trees (no landing options at all in the last 20+ miles) and arrive at
pattern altitude, 7,000 msl. No throttles to bump forward if we guess
wrong, either. ;-)
-Bob