Mother's Day Flight

Any tips for me?

Get used to it? ;-)

Haha, I am about used to it now, but it is helluv ugly. I always
pictured myself landing gracefully. My landings are anything but
graceful.


Seriously, landing is like having a problem with Windows XP -- you can do
the exact same thing ten times in a row, and get ten different results. It
makes trouble-shooting difficult, to say the least, but it does get better
over time. Eventually you get more consistent, and have more greasers.
A day or two of solo practice landings should help me then. I stopped
today before I killed myself trying. Every landing I was getting more
and more frustrated. I knew it was time to park it and go home.


Try to keep your eyes focused on the far end of the runway as you round out
your flare, and don't get discouraged. In 9 years, almost 900 hours, and
over 1400 landings, I can count the number of truly "perfect" landings on
one hand. All the rest have been "salvaged" -- although (so far) I've
always been able to use the plane again!

This may be my problem. I tend to focus just off the nose of the
plane, for fear of flaring to late and plowing the nose wheel into the
ground. Next time out, I will focus at the end of the runway and see
if it improves this landing mess I have gotten myself into.


:-)