There's 2 accuracy landings for Commercial. A short-field (with power) and a
180 degree power off landing.
I took my re-test today & passed! Got passed the landings I missed in the Bo
& then got to do the airwork stuff in my Cherokee. Whew. Now I can start
reading up on CFI training.

As my CFI & I were putting away the Bonanza, we watched 4 F-16s (based here)
make a tight short approach to land. They make it look easy... ;-)

Thanks for all those who chipped in some advice.

"Darrell S" wrote in message
news:v5HFg.1632$y61.1016@fed1read05...
I got my commercial due to being a military pilot so I only had to take a
written test on civilian regulations. Won't the examiner allow you to use
power on final to drag it to the point you wish to land and then throttle
to
idle? After I retired from the Air Force some friends let me be a member
of
their aero club for free in exchange for flight instruction. This one guy
had the same problem you're having. He couldn't consistently land at the
beginning of an actual short runway. I asked him why he didn't take his
base leg out a little further so he could drag it in with some power and
then chop it at the runway. His eyes got big and he said he didn't think
that was legal. I told him it was silly to purposely enter an
uncontrolled
event to avoid the POSSIBILITY of an engine failure and not having enough
glide speed/path to get to the runway. Sure, if you have a normal runway
length you should set up so that with an engine failure in the pattern you
can still make it to the runway.

You try not to deliberately enter a dangerous situation to avoid the
possibility of something else happening. But if the regs for the CHECK
RIDE
don't allow it you have to do it that way for the check ride only. But
not
in a real very short field situation.

--
Darrell R. Schmidt
B-58 Hustler History: (see below)
http://members.cox.net/dschmidt1/