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Old September 10th 06, 08:31 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Cats
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Default Landings question


Cats wrote:
intermittent landing grief

OK guys, maybe I wasn't clear. It's not a question of not being able
to do it at all, it's a question of slipping into back into getting
fixated on the reference point and rounding out too late and hitting
the ground hard enough to bounce and make the guy in the back cringe.

After the problem came back, my own diagnosis was failure to look along
the field once I start the roundout - that after a number of good
landings, I was maybe getting cocky about it and forgetting what I was
doing that worked.

Tried it out today - carefully reminded myself of the need to look
along the field, and produced a good landing every time with & without
the man in the back seat, including my first flight in a single-seater.
My own solution at present is to at least mentally add it on to the
end of 'eventualities' - 'and when I reach the round-out look along the
field'.