BW> RL> The 747 Captain told him it had been a lot
BW> RL> of years since he first soloed but to this day he could still hear 
is
BW> RL> instructor saying "hold it off, hold it off" every time he landed.
BW>Wished mine had said that.  Never learned how to land until AFTER I had 
ll
BW>training for the private completed.
     Can still remember my first landing in a T-11 (D-18S with a glass
nose).  IP in the left seat kept saying "Hold it off, hold it off" until
we heard the mains touch.  After a few seconds, we looked at each other
and said, almost simultaneously, "Are we down?"  Consensus was to pull
back on the wheel to find out for certain.  Got the racket from the
tailwheel and we both figured we must have been down.  Guess I was one
of the lucky ones as I don't encounter any tendency for the Beech to
try to swap ends.
     It was one of the smoothest landing the IP had experienced in the
Beech - he was a DC-3 Captain and was used to trying to land the Beech
at the same cockpit height.  I think I referred to it as a "flare and
drop" landing.
Lou.
 * OLX 2.1 TD * Fool your grandkids, don't grow up.
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