On 2010-08-01, anthony wrote:
On Jul 30, 11:24*am, Franklin
wrote:
Stephen! wrote:
a wrote in
news:9bc82c51-ad2d-48c4-bbd8-03eb64291845
@g35g2000yqa.googlegroups.com:

The likely lesson is, learn or relearn to control your energy!

* All good points but I think a better lesson from this crash would
* be how to decide when you've blown the landing and go around.

It take time to know how to land a plane. It takes longer to know when not
to land a plane.

Franklin wrote
It take time to know how to land a plane. It takes longer to know when
not
to land a plane.

Good point. Note to CFIs doing BFIs -- at least once when your client
is deep in the flare, command "Go around". It would be a way of
reminding us the throttle may sometimes have to be advanced when we
are planning to land.

Really good point. I'm currently a student pilot (only had 1st solo on
7/4/10), and before the solo, my CFI did exactly that, whilst right in
the flare, he, in a conversational tone, said, "Go around." Proudly,
I was on it, and smoothly increased throttle, and reduced flaps...

I got to learn another lesson that day:

When going around, and you need to decrease the flap by 1 "click",
make sure you don't let out ALL the flap. Fortunately, the CFI
calmly said, "You let out all the flap; we're going to lose altitude
if you don't..." I already caught my mistake and put 2 clicks back
in of flaps. Now I'm always aware!

But this is why we train, right? I want to make ALL my mistakes
when the CFI is right there.

In my second solo - simply flying the pattern for 3 T/O landings -
I exercised my own judgemnt to Go Around. I came in too fast, and
ground effect was making me float way too far - so, rather than
chance it, I simply "went around".

I almost had the urge to not do it. I was thinking, I know what
I'm doing, so, I can stick this. A split second later, I said
to myself that if I'm trying to convince myself that I can make
this, on a simple landing that is getting close, I better just
go around.

That will stick with me now. I know what to expect of myself and
the signs to look for - at least in this case.

Cheers