All I can say is that right now, I feel really, really stupid...
It all started with a short hop from Dusseldorf (EDDL) to Frankfurt am Main (EDDF), in my little Cessna 310. It was a night flight in overcast conditions, clouds were solid at 1,400, and I only had about 100nm to go, so I set my course, dialed in the the Frankfurt VOR on VOR2, and the ILS freq on VOR1, and set the autopilot for NAV mode. Takeoff and cruise was beautiful, cruising at 190KIAS at well below posted fuel consumption @ cruise (18GPH instead of 24).
And then we got to the final approach... ATC vectors a 747 to land behind me, and an A330 to land on the parallel runway. Since the 747 was only a mile or so behind, I slowed way down to 120KIAS 20nm out to let him pass so I wouldn't forced to go around. I had to leave AP on for almost the entire approach, because of the ceiling, but shortly after I broke out of the clouds, a mile or so before the middle marker, I hear ATC hand the 747 off to ground, so I was good to land.
Not quite... I amazingly make a very good approach and flare in a GA aircraft, right on the centerline and, just before touchdown, descending at less than 100 fpm. I first noticed something wrong when the aircraft kept sinking, but I figured it was normal since I was used to flying heavy iron, not GA. That lasted until the bump of touchdown was followed not by a gentle rollout, but a very abrupt declaration and grinding noise. I had just executed a perfect belly landing for absolutely no reason other than I forgot to put down the gear--I think I just might go back to heavy iron where Betty bitches "Terrain Terrain" at me if I do something like this again.
