What's the best recovery from A bounced landing? Besides go around?

Question

What's the best recovery from A bounced landing? Besides go around?

Answer 1

one bounce isn't so bad - if you start to get repeated bounces, then it an be a problem - in my plane a prop strike is likely after the second bounce (mooney m20) - so go around.

nose back down to level, a little power, start holding off the landing again, back to idle, grease it in.

if this seems to happen alot, it means you are flaring too high - with an instructor, learn to fly level at about 2 feet in the air above the runway at approach speed - this is where your flare can start, and you should be able to start moving the nose up without gaining altitude..the nose changes in reference to your outside picture, the picture stays the same.

i like to use this method at night when i land, i keep a little power in - fly over the runway for 300' or so, then land.  i can check for wild animals (mostly deer) that way too.

Answer 2

Besides a go around, the rapid and smooth application of a little power. Once the plane has bounced, you are going to be back in the air with reduced airspeed increasing your chances of coming back down hard in a stall. The application of some power and gently lowering the nose a bit will help you descend a little more gradually and then re-flare providing you have sufficient runway left to complete the landing.

Answer 3

It all depends on if you are flying a taildragger or a tricycle. As the main gear hits the ground hard, the taildragger will rotate nose up and the tricycle the opposite.

In both cases the bouncing will put you again above the ground and the best way to recover without applying full throttle and go around is to, again, put the aircraft in an attitude where you are slightly above the stall AoA of the wing.

With my taildragger it would mean: push the stick forward and then toward me slowly, trying to make a three-points landing.

Bouncing is not unusual and shouldn't be a problem because if you bounce three times, the airfield manager won't count it as three landing fees. Well, most don't! :-)