lowtimedriver
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I have no clue as to what aircraft lands the easiest as I have only landed two during my long and illustrious career, er, 140 hours. I have however, watched approximately ten jillion landings at KSNA as my office is located next to the SNA and I have been spending most of my lunch breaks there since 1993. Now the 757 looks like just the easiest thing to land in the world. I have seen, oh maybe about three bad landings by 757 drivers during the last 13 years. The 57 looks like a great big eagle when it's on short final and with all the wing lift the landings are generally really soft. The 37 OTOH looks like a bear to land, seems like it has a super high sink rate and maybe that's just the way the 37 drivers have got to do it at SNA since the runway is so short. The A-320 (319,321), well lets just say if the conditions are good the pilots usually make really good landings. OTOH, when the wind is really blowing hard at SNA, it seems like the Airbus drivers have a problem sometimes in high wind conditions. I don't know if it’s the fly-by-wire, but it seems that the Airbus drivers have a hard time with landings. A few months ago I saw an America West Airbus driver bounce one about one thousand feet it seemed like. I was waiting for him to go around, but he got it down ok. In his defense, the wind conditions were absolutely brutal. It was the first time I ever saw an airplane bounce like a super ball. Dude must have bounced that sucker about one hundred feet into the air. MD-80's look tough to land there. Brasilia's look pretty east to land. I hope I get the chance to land something heavier than a 172 some day...
