If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?

Just wondered if, say, you bring the plane down and flare it too high, not only would you have a tail-strike, but could the force on the front gear, and all the weight, severely damage it? Or are they sterdy, and designed to take these things?If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?Hitting the tail then the nose wheel (pogo) could be disastrous. The main gear can take some heavy landings but the nose gear hitting he ground first would destroy the gear, (to say the least) and many another thing.



If you flare high, the remedy is to let it come down and then give a final check before touch down. No need to raise the nose further after your high flare. In this way, you will ensure that you touch down on your main gear (even if a bit heavy) and your tail and nose do not get into an oscillation.If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?
On modern commercial aircraft each main gear strut is designed to take the full impact of the landing if the aircraft approaches at a banked angle.



If the aircraft hits the ground hard, a heavy landing is recorded and a detailed inspection of the landing gear is carried out before the next flight. Landing directly on the nose would be catastrophic to that gear and the safety of the aircraft.



On every commercial aircraft with a set of bogie gears (ie 4 wheels on each main gear strut) the main wheels are cantilevered. This is where the aft wheels hang lower than the front wheels on the main gear. In short this allows for some degree of deviation from the ideal flare angle, as it ensuring that the aft wheels touch the ground before the forward wheels stopping a tilting moment which would force the nose of the aircraft down.If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?landing gear is designed to take some amount of violence during landing. however, when an aircraft is improperly flared, either flared too high or too low or not all all, of course the landing gear can be damaged.

worse could be total landing gear strut failure.



yes, the front gear can be damaged easily. Front gear is NOT designed to absorb any kind of smashing or slamming. you should use it for nothing but to support the weight of the engine after touching down on the main gear first.



normal aircraft, will not come out undamaged from a landing at more than 500 feet per minute descent rate..

carrier capable aircraft, like the a-6, f-18, f-14 are designed to not need to flare and can routinely tolerate 800 feet per minute descents directly onto the deck of a carrier.If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?
If you're talking about a high-wing Cessna with spring steel MLG and a NOSE shock strut the front gear can be slightly damaged if repeated over and over and over again. The shock strut actually ABSORBS shock and dissipates it as heat (hydraulic fluid, metering pin, orifice, blah blah blah flapper valve snubber tube maybe). Im sure seals will heat up along with fluid which makes things wear out quicker. The tires can also take premature damage by landing too hard and chunking and chevroning up. You also risk a prop strike if you do NOT flare properly, not to mention it does not feel good 'emotionally' to make bad landings.If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?To better answer your questions you have to know a little about the aircraft structure. If you do not flare properly and drop the aircraft on the runway (hard landing) it can and will cause damage to the structure and landing gear. This is why it is very important to write it up in the discrepancies records so the maintenance department can inspect the aircraft for hidden damage.



I know pilots don鈥檛 want anyone to know they may of landed hard, but it causes damages and the gear or aircraft structure will fail eventually if not found and fixed. I have include the required inspection the must be accomplished if you land hard.



Aircraft can only take so much damage that is why there are addition inspections for unforeseen events such as the one you ask about. Tails bend, rivets pop, longeron bend, ribs fail and people die if unreported.



Special Inspections. During the service life of an aircraft, occasions may arise when a landing is made in an overweight condition or during a portion of the flight severe turbulence is encountered. Also, for a variety of reasons, rough landings are experienced.



1. Special inspections procedures should be followed when one or more of the aforementioned situations are encountered to determine if the aircraft structure has experienced damage.

2. When performing these special inspections, the detailed procedures in the aircraft maintenance manual should be followed.



Hard or Overweight Landing Inspections. The stress induced in a structure by a hard or overweight landing depends both on the gross weight at touchdown and the severity of impact (rate of sink). It is difficult to estimate vertical velocity at the time of impact, and whether a landing has been sufficiently severe to result in structural damage. With this in view, a special inspection should be performed after:



1. A landing is made at a weight known to exceed the design landing weight, or

2. A rough landing regardless of the landing weight.

3. Wrinkled wing skin is a sign of an excessive load, which may have been imposed during a landing. Another indication easily detected is fuel leaks and/or fuel stains along riveted seams.

4. Other possible damage locations are spar webs, bulkheads, nacelle skin and attachments, wing and fuselage stringers.

If these areas do not indicate adverse effects, probably no serious damage has occurred. A more extensive inspection and alignment is necessary if damage is noted.
"Not flaring properly" can mean a lot of things. If you touch down on the nose wheel first, you are out of control and can end up anywhere, and/or roll the airplane up in a ball.



What you seem to be concerned about is control of the sink rate at the flare. This is the central skill to be learned in learning to land an airplane. If it was very easy, everybody would do it. It is a matter of practice and following your instructor's instructions carefully.



Good luck, and have fun!If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?
Landing gears are designed to support extra G forces. Sometimes they support 2G or 2,5G. It depends if you exceed this G than for sure you will damage the gears. That true you have to flare the aircraft at a certain angle for a smother landing but to hit the ground with the tail than you must be a complete idiot
Yes. A tail strike during landing is hard to do without trying. If the nose is that high you might well have more to worry about than tail damage. Sure, if the landing is hard enough it can damage the nose gear. I've seen it split the fork and even damage the mounts.If you don't flare the plane properly when landing, can it damage the gear?
you do need to flare, but not too much. the gear is NOT designed for sudden pressure. the smoke/steam coming up when the tires touch the ground is a good friction opening i.e. it is a good landing.
If it's a trainer it's designed to take some abuse. Just don't let things get TOO out of hand. You can abuse 'em too much.