Incident Details
The pilot of an airplane reported that at the end of a 2.5-hour flight, he entered the traffic pattern and observed the airplane was slightly high. On final approach, he believed the airplane was slightly low, so he reduced the landing flaps to the 10-degree setting. He then realized he had misjudged his altitude and was, in fact, high. The pilot further reported that he misjudged the airplane's rate of descent, which he characterized as excessive. The airplane touched down hard on the runway, bounced, recontacted the runway, bounced again, and came to rest with a collapsed nose gear strut and bent firewall.
Background
The pilot had received a biennial flight review (BFR) on the morning of the accident flight. Prior to that BFR, he had not flown an airplane in two years.