Student Landings

[PhatAJ2008]

So I'm lading for the first couple of times this week and I'll be honest, I'm aweful at it. My instructor has to take the controls almost every time and somehow we have survived a couple of possible whipe-outs. Is this normal? We spent a whole lesson on them today, and granted there was a serious x-wind, I still couldn't nail one...

AHHHHHH

 

[gkrangers]

Try it without the serious crosswind, use light control inputs, don't overfly the airplane, and RELAX.

 

[midlifeflyer]

Yep. It's normal.

 

[troy]

remember to ensure that the nose of the airplane is pointed at the other end of the runway. The other guys are correct, just relax and fly the airplane until it will not fly anymore (in the flare). It will tell you when to touch down.

And yes, it's normal.

 

[SEVEN]

We've all been there. Just part of the whole "learning to fly" experience. You'll get it.

 

[pilotguy143]

You should have seen my landings. It took me forever to get my landings down. Then I started to fly tailwheel gliders and I learned how to land.... again

 

[DrewBlows]

It's normal, especially if there was a decent cross-wind and/or turbulance. I've noticed from my experience and my students that with landings in particular students don't get it, don't get it, don't get it, then BOOM it all comes together at once and they get it.

 

[MFRskyknight]

It's normal, especially if there was a decent cross-wind and/or turbulance. I've noticed from my experience and my students that with landings in particular students don't get it, don't get it, don't get it, then BOOM it all comes together at once and they get it.

That's exactly how it played out for me. Sometimes, it just CLICKS.

I forget how many "landings" (read: potentially weed-trimming, rubber-squealing, cow-scaring events) I logged before that click came for me. Probably upwards of 30 or 40.

One thing that helped me was getting the flow of the approach set up drilled into my head. Airspeed control, carb heat, 10 deg of flaps, check airspeed, base, 20 deg of flaps, check airspeed, final, 30 deg, or whatever it is for you.

Just think, nice approaches will tend to produce nice landings.

MFR

 

[minitour]

MFR is correct exactly!

A properly trimmed aircraft flown on a proper approach, will tend to produce better landings than those "well this looks funky..." approaches.

It'll come. Mine took forever...now it's just second nature. I fly - I land. You'll get it.

-mini

 

[RockbrigadePC1]

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