Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 140; Flight Crew Total 9000; Flight Crew Type 200
Training / Qualification
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy; Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control; Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft; Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach
Aircraft Aircraft Damaged
Human Factors
[I am] currently [a] Captain at a major airline with 300 hours flown in the previous 6 months. Decided to fly a GA airplane. Reserved a previous airplane I had flown in the past 7 months; a Diamond 40. I arrived at the FBO. Diamond 40 had an electrical problem and was told the Cessna was available. I was asked if I had flown the Cessna. I informed them I had. The FBO then asked if I wanted to do a lap around the pattern and I said I should be ok. I was taking my mother on a flight and decided to just go up and fly before sunset. Preflight to takeoff to approach was uneventful. I crossed the threshold 5 knots fast and started my flare while retarding throttle. The problem was that I flared way too high for a Cessna. I'm used to a Boeing airplane and was used to the high flare. I hit the runway hard and bounced up and landed again and the nose wheel flattened out. FBO helped me taxi airplane to the hangar using a tug. I was then called informed the prop struck the ground and the front gear assembly was pushed up.The FBO should have requested 3 landings recently to rent an airplane and I should have said yes to the FBO when asked if I wanted to. I just wanted to take my mom flying that day. I assumed since I could fly an airliner that flying a Cessna would be a piece of cake. I unfortunately made an error in judgment that since I was current in landings in an airliner I should have no problem in a Cessna.
C172 pilot reported a hard landing that resulted in damage to the nose gear and a prop strike.