Walked away from this one...

Its amazing how a bad landing can ruin your day too. I went up on my second official instrument lesson the other day, did everything well, pretty much to PTS standards. Made a decent landing over at Monroe County. Came back to PDK, tracked the VOR to the field, set up everything just right... then flared too high and pranged it in.... and that landing was all I could think about for 2 hours /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/banghead.gif

Its like they say... theres way more to flying then landing, but landing is what the general population will judge you on.
 
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I started some weird, kind of strong oscillation up and down on the nose wheel. Right after like the third one I started
counteracting them with the elevator and eventually went away…
It’s the first time that I experience this, so it freak me out.

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You may have gotten lucky on this one. Often when you start "counteracting" you end up chasing the oscillation and actually make it worse. I watched a nose gear get takein off a 172 that way.

As other have said best method is to stabilize at an appropriate pitch, slightly nose up. Then initiating a go-around would be the safest. After some experience you might elect to let it settle on the runway, using power as needed to avoid a hard landing (keeping in mind you are using up runway). But if in doubt about anything, go around.

Thathas worked for me from everything to a cub to a widebody.
 
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Its like they say... theres way more to flying then landing, but landing is what the general population will judge you on.

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Watching the Olympics and the gymnastics has made me realize just how similar flying and gymnastics are.

No matter how good your flying or routine is, people who don't know jack about it will judge you by your landing. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif

Can you imagine that? Oh, that's gonna cost him -- no crosswind and yet he landed on the right wheel first. That's a mandatory tenth of a point right there! /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/spin2.gif
 
Yup, we saw a freshly-minted PPL porpoise a 172 down the runway....and eventually off of it into the grass and in so doing, taking out two runway lights in the process.

The good thing is, all walked away unscathed. Sad thing is, he had his very first pax on board. They were cool, but they haven't been back up with him either.
 
Bad Landings happen, we just need to learn from them.

Today I landed with a crosswind in a 182RG, when the cross wind died, I was about 3 feet off the ground, I didn't take the crosswind correction out soon enough and the downwind wing started to float up and I was heading for the edge of the runway at 60 knots, I manged to save it but it sure did shake me up a bit.
 
I remember bouncing like a basket ball upon landing at my first airport on my first cross-country solo in 1995 at HFD CT.
I was doing a touch and go on top of it all. Got the plane down flat on the floor just in the niche of time and picked my speed back up and got that bad boy back in the air where it belonged. I still get cold feet just thinking about it. Nowadays I'd just come to a full stop. What can I say when your young your a bit more........well dopey. Ever since then I've been an A-1 landing pilot. So don't sweat it maybe your a better pilot for it. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/cool.gif
 
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