What is it called when a plane bounces on landing?
A porpoise landing is a bounced landing that, if not recovered, results in your plane touching down nose first. If you let it continue, it will set your plane off into a series of jumps and dives, like a real porpoise.
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Description. A Baulked Landing, sometimes referred to as a Rejected Landing, is a low energy go-around initiated from a very low height above the runway or, potentially, even after touchdown has occurred.
Pilots often refer to hard landings using terminology usually associated with carrier landings, such as welcome aboard or caught the 3-wire or something similar.
Discussion: In some cases pilots may need to reject a landing due to rapidly deteriorating weather conditions which reduce the visibility required for a safe landing.
Transferring too much weight onto the nosewheel causes a situation called wheelbarrowing, which can lead to a loss of directional control, prop strike, or nose gear collapse. On top of those problems, with little to no weight on your main landing gear, you have little braking action.
It is common for pilots to greet air traffic control (ATC) with a phrase such as good afternoon or good morning when they first establish radio communication. This is a courteous way to start the conversation and helps to confirm that the radio is working properly.
In this situation attempting a smooth landing would increase the chances of overrunning the runway. Firm landings are the way to go to slow the plane down faster and to get off the runway sooner. Especially when it's raining outside, firm landings are more so desirable.
Definition. A Hard Landing, in some regions referred to as a heavy landing, is a landing in which the manufacturer's touchdown limitation, expressed either as a rate of descent or as a 'g' loading value, has been exceeded.