C172 pilot reported a hard landing that resulted in damage to the nose gear and a prop strike.

Narrative:

[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.

Original NASA ASRS Text

Title: C172 pilot reported a hard landing that resulted in damage to the nose gear and a prop strike.

Narrative: [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.

Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.

Attributes
ACN	1448448
Time
Date	201705
Local Time Of Day	1801-2400
Place
Locale Reference	ZZZ.Airport
State Reference	US
Environment
Flight Conditions	VMC
Light	Daylight
Aircraft 1
Make Model Name	Skyhawk 172/Cutlass 172
Operating Under FAR Part	Part 91
Flight Phase	Landing
Flight Plan	None
Person 1
Function	Pilot Flying Single Pilot
Qualification	Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP) Flight Crew Instrument Flight Crew Multiengine
Experience	Flight Crew Last 90 Days 140 Flight Crew Total 9000 Flight Crew Type 200
Events
Anomaly	Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Ground Event / Encounter Loss Of Aircraft Control Ground Event / Encounter Ground Strike - Aircraft Inflight Event / Encounter Unstabilized Approach