how not to land a light plane
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 19 พ.ย. 2024
- Practicing for my cross country. Planning KLNS to KPTW then KRDG following to 9D4 and back to KLNS. Today was just a lousy day for me. I want to blame it on the plane (432BL has a tougher rudder then the 181BL I usually fly) but ultimately, the guy with the stick and throttle controls the plane not the other way around. We skipped KPTW due to a TFR. First landing was KRDG then multiple attempts to get into 9D4 left me with my head spinning. Then back home. Lets see if next week is better.
Nice videos. I'm glad I stumbled across them. I am also a Marine veteran who has always wanted to fly. I started two times but life events derailed me. I have given up on a private license and decided to pursue a sport license. I will be 70 in July so I was encouraged by your site. Sport license still allows me to do want I want with less risk of losing it. Will continue watching your videos. My sister lives in PA.
You're doing great! Don't let a bad day get you down. I found that I started landing better when I REALLY started using the rudder on final. I consciously think about it and flex my legs...pushing them both equally against the rudder pedals after the base-to-final turn to remind myself it's time for lots of rudder. Then, I keep working the rudder aggressively. It really makes the plane feel more "stable" using the rudders, which allows less aileron. Keep practicing and happy flying! Remember, a bad day flying is still much better than a good day working!
The first few seconds of this video had me on the edge of my seat wondering when the engine was gonna quit and where you were gonna land...based on the title alone. 🤣I noticed you tend to land to the right of centerline. My instructors always taught me to look at the end of the runway and put the centerline between your knees. Right seat, left seat, tandem/one-seater, doesn't matter, it always works.
7000+ Tailwheel hours
I just passed my checkride a few days ago. In my training I had days where just everything was feeling sloppy and bad. Try not to get discouraged and know that everyone has their off days. You'll get there in no time.
People learn a lot more from watching mistakes than they do perfect attempts. Thanks for sharing!
Going from a wide to a narrow runway can throw off your sight picture. Even during my commercial I once made the mistake of flaring too high on a wide runway (I was used to narrow ones) in an arrow and my instructor had to call for a go around. I learned from that and remembered the lesson.
Before reading the description I figured you were a rusty pilot working to get back in shape, not a student. This all looked fine to me. You'll learn to correct yourself on final to maintain the centerline. You already showed good judgement when you decided to go around--twice. Best wishes with your training!
Might help, might not, but you can try this as you approach and into ground effect: rudder to keep the nose pointed down the runway, ailerons to control side-to-side alignment with the centerline.
It's a very small runway. Once you get the hang of that, you'll be able to land anywhere!
It’s all about practice my man! You’re doing great keep up the great work! Don’t let one bad day dictate the rest of your training you’ll overcome this obstacle before you know it!
That's what training is ... anything worth doing is worth doing poorly, until you learn to do it well. Just keep making an effort with every landing and it'll click.
I love my Cessna 150. It’s Land-o-Matic. I’ve done over 500 landings in it without a go around or any disaster. The thing is just too easy.
I always go over the threshold at 70 mph and just pull the throttle. And your CFI is correct. You need to develop the muscle memory to keep the nose straight down the center of the runway in any kind of wind. The adjustments mostly involve mini side slips with opposite alieron-rudder adjustments to keep things straight while you keep the nose up to bleed off speed and get inches off the surface until the plane loses lift.
Practice, always learning.
Keep at it. I've made some landings that I don't want to talk about. Practice practice practice.
Do you have an aiming point picked out on the runway and are flying toward it? As you look out the windshield, part of the ground will be moving up/away from you, part of it moving down/toward you, part will be stationary. Your first landing, the stationary part is the grass between the runway and the highway...and not the side closer to the runway either. That's why you ended up low. You corrected for it, but not enough. The second one, the stationary point is about halfway down the runway. That is why you overshot.
Third one you did better tracking toward a fixed aiming point but were already high to begin with so might not have been salvageable. Fourth one you are aimed at the far end of the runway until instructor corrected you.
Not bad at all.
One mile final... Unless you are high enough, which you were not, you are counting on the engine keeping running to make the landing on the field. Always have a plan B. Learn with the instructor how to keep close to the runway while in the pattern so if an emergency occurs, the runway is reachable. If your instructor can't show you this, find another. Students and instructors have died while practicing takeoffs and landings in totally functional aircraft.
Oh and new sub. I wanna watch you progress. You're doing great! ❤
Define "great" ....He needs to know that his landings are "not so great" and need work. Just telling someone, "you're doing great" doesn't help them. This was NOT great, nor even remotely good- there is no command over the aircraft at this point whatsoever.. This was loaded with LOTS of mistakes and needs to be improved. You don't get "participation trophies" in aviation.
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I was trying to highlight a bad day. This is certainly not my normal flying and it was as much a jab at myself as anything else. Ever had a bad day yourself? @@jamesroberts3642