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I think this topic brings up another good point. Start practicing VFR
landings using non-standard approaches. I find a nice, out of the way airport, with no traffic and practice right traffic, straight in, close downwind, 180 turns to final,etc.... I also had a problem with getting in the Downwind, base, final rut and needed to get some practice doing funny approaches. Many VOR IAP do not line you up for the runway. This practice has actually helped me to land the airplane on nice days as well as during IMC. |
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Just slow down. That will decrease your turm radius & give you more time to
do everything else. You can also put in half flaps if you dont like flying slow with your nose in the air. So far as distance from the runway, normal pattern distances will always be within the 1.3 miles alloted. Its distracting for sure to be lower than usual TPA, so all the more reason to just increase the pitch angle & slow it down. Good luck !! "xyzzy" wrote in message ... All through my primary training I learned never to turn more than 30 degree bank in the pattern, and keep that ball centered. For four years and about 230 hours I've flown by that doctrine. Now I'm doing instrument and on circling approaches I'm learning that to keep it close enough in on downwind and still get it around to final lined up, I have to bank pretty steeply and sometimes even do slipping turns to final. Plus I'm starting from an altitude about 400-500 feet lower than the pattern altitude I am used to. so suddenly I am being called upon to do steep turns in the pattern, sometimes uncoordinated, and significantly lower than I usually fly patterns. I'm find it hard to unlearn and as a result my circling approaches are all overshooting final. So far I have always been able to get back to it while staying coordinated and land with plenty of runway left. I'm finding myself having an easier time doing that than banking more than 30 degrees in a slip while only 300-400 feet AGL. Did other IFR pilots have this difficulty in training and if so how did you overcome it. Right now my plan is to go up to altitude and practice slipping turns and just work at it with my instructor. |
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