Landing skills

a wrote:
OK, we've all heard the "It's a good landing if. . ."
a -- you can walk away from it,
b -- the airplane can be used again.

When the several of us do proficiency rides with each other, we try to
refine that a bit.

My working definition is

c -- if both throttle and yoke move back monotonically from abeam the
numbers onward, and you make the planned turn off without touching
your brakes

I was introduced to a different definition by a guy new to our group
who flies a 182. He has a much better feel for his airplane than I do
for mine -- if I'm wearing a noise canceling headset I can't hear OR
FEEL (caps intentional) some of his landings when the mains touch the
surface. I know we're down when he lowers the nose wheel, I tell him
it's easier in a high wing airplane, but later I went out in the M20
alone and did 5 touch and goes, and felt the mains touch down each
time. It's going to take some work to get the rate of descent close to
zero at an altitude of an inch or so.

When I want to work on my landings as opposed to just logging them, I
never do a touch and go and always come to a full stop.

Once the airplane is stopped I critique myself and think about what I did
and what I need to do on the next landing to make it better.

This is a technique shown me by an instructor who said that if you do touch
and goes you have to pay attention to flying the airplane and can't
concentrate on analyzing what you just did.

It works for me, your mileage my vary.


--
Jim Pennino

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