"A Lieberman" wrote in message
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Any input for helping me improve on my landings most welcomed!

Some thoughts (other than the true comment Jay offered ):

Watching handheld video of someone else's landing doesn't really give much
insight into how good the landing was, nor what might be done to improve the
landings (assuming anything needs to be improved in the first place).

I watched two of the landings: the first night landing listed, and the
daytime landing at PIB. Neither of them presented any obvious faults, IMHO.
That doesn't mean they couldn't be improved, nor does it mean that they
could be. It just means that it's too hard to tell in the video what might
be good or bad.

That said, that won't prevent me, a person posting to a Usenet newsgroup,
from offering advice anyway.

In the daytime video, one can get a feel for power setting by watching the
propeller as it "strobes" with the frame rate. The engine sound might have
been useful too, but I couldn't perceive any distinct engine pitch in the
audio. Probably too much wind or other noise masking it.

Anyway, my interpretation of the changing nature of the strobing of the prop
is that the engine RPM was changing, and thus the power setting was
changing. It seemed to be changing nearly constantly throughout the entire
landing. Ideally, one should only need a couple (or even just one) major
power setting change, and two or three minor adjustments at most.

Of course, I'm looking only at secondary evidence, and it's entirely
possible there weren't any power changes at all. Still, the video does
suggest that the final approach wasn't stabilized, from a power setting
perspective (or possibly an airspeed perspective).

The only other thing that I might comment on is the apparent lack of a
relatively nose-high pitch attitude at touchdown. However, both of the
landings I watched included the stall warning horn, so that suggests to me
that the video simply doesn't do a good job of depicting the actual pitch
attitude.

Which of course brings me back to my first statement. This kind of video
makes for great armchair piloting, where people can make up all sorts of
second-guessing. But it doesn't do much for actually conveying what
happened in the airplane.

If you really want advice and accurate assessments, you'd need to provide
much more detailed information. At a minimum, I'd want to see an exterior
shot of the airplane as it touched down, as well as a running display of the
current airspeed. That, along with the specific "book numbers" for that
airplane, would give a reasonably objective reference point from which to
comment.

Pete