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Lufthansa Boeing 747-8 makes heavy landing in Los Angeles: video 

Aerotime

However, as the aircraft crossed the runway threshold, the footage appears to show the aircraft making little attempt to arrest its rate of descent or initiate a flare by raising its nose to bleed off any excess airspeed before it touches down.

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How to Improve Your Landings

Pilot Institute

Key Takeaways Start by setting up your approach correctly to ensure you arrive at the threshold perfectly every time. Learn to use aircraft references to establish a stable descent rate and pitch, ending up in a smooth roundout and flare. You should arrive at the threshold on the centerline at the proper height and speed each time.

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Mastering Short Field Landings (A Step-by-Step Guide)

Pilot Institute

Any substantial changes to speed and descent rate will destabilize the landing. If it prevents you from landing close to the threshold, a short runway becomes even shorter. The drag allows for a steeper descent, which is particularly helpful when avoiding obstacles. Downwind Phase Complete the before-landing checklist.

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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

Pilot Institute

On a normal landing, you’d pull the power over the threshold, begin your roundout, and flare around 10 feet AGL. When crossing the threshold, start reducing the power. High-wing aircraft might need more power or pitch to arrest the descent. Overcorrecting for a high descent rate will cause the aircraft to balloon.

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Stabilized Approaches

Plane and Pilot

GA pilots find time-tested and more creative ways to skitter off the side of the runway, land short of the threshold, or slide off the far end with the brakes smoking and tires squealing. 1 cause of GA accidents and incidents remains loss of control (LOC), most often on landing.

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Where There’s Smoke…

Plane and Pilot

It looked like I was still on a descent to touch down at the threshold on Runway 15. I was soon sitting in the seat, feet on pedals, hand on throttle, and back on the overrun taxiing to the threshold. What can be hard about a straight-in, even if I had never done one? I lined up and continued to descend.

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Tribute to Vistara Part 1: Flying Vistara's A320neo from Chennai to New Delhi

Charles Ryan's Flying Adventure

Here we are, we have reached the threshold. After sometime of cruising, we started our descent into Delhi. It was hazy during our descent but nothing bumpy. We entered the runway 25. It looks like a fine day for flying. I had a great view of the city, that's why window seat is a must for me especially during day flight.

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