I've made worse landings with a CFI sitting next to me in the cockpit when I was starting out. Landed a bit long but otherwise looked like a soft touchdown and a straight roll. Very impressive!
To my noob eye, it seems that the person did absolutely no pitching to shave off the speed. That's the hard part, in my very limited experience with simulators. Dunno if this plane does usually need pitching, but I guess they were very lucky to have enough of the runway.
Yea. On the ATC recording they say how they are sending him to the largest nearby airport, which has runways big enough to land jumbo jets, so he'd have plenty of space. I'm sure making sure he'd have enough space to bleed off speed without any experience was on their mind.
Not so much lucky as planned; they were sent to PBI because it had a long runway. Also you don't pitch to reduce speed, you reduce power to reduce speed. Then pitch up to maintain glide slope and altitude. That's how you land if you have a feel for it but for someone inexperienced there's the risk they too slow, pitch too far up, and stall. Better to come in a little fast if you have the runway.
