Aileron Descent Final Approach 
Pilot's Life Blog
JUNE 18, 2025
Maintain a stable approach speed, slightly above your normal landing speed, to help control the aircraft. Final Approach Adjustments Use the crab method to keep the aircraft aligned with the runway centerline. Keep a close eye on your airspeed, descent rate, and alignment, adjusting controls as needed.
Pilot's Life Blog
JUNE 18, 2025
A power-off 180 is a critical maneuver that simulates an engine failure on final approach, requiring pilots to glide the aircraft and execute a precise 180-degree turn to a safe landing spot. Use ailerons and rudder together to maintain coordinated flight. Avoid steep banks that increase stall risk and reduce glide efficiency.
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Pilot Institute
OCTOBER 16, 2024
Brief that you will use the right rudder to align the aircraft straight with the runway and the left aileron to counteract drift. It also allows you to focus on flying during the last stages of the approach and landing. Descent Point Nominate a descent point that will give you a constant 3° profile to the threshold.
Flight Training Central
DECEMBER 4, 2023
The approach for the soft-field landing is similar to the normal approach. The major difference between the two is that a degree of power is used throughout the level-off and touchdown for the soft-field landing so as to control the descent rate all the way to touch down. VS0 should be used.
Pilot Institute
JULY 12, 2024
Perfect the approach phase by managing the aircraft’s energy and using references to improve positioning throughout the pattern. See how the wind affects the base leg and how you can compensate for it and safely execute the base-to-final turn. Flying the Approach Haphazard approaches are very likely to lead to haphazard landings.
Photographic Logbook
FEBRUARY 2, 2025
At one point, we were watching an RV on final approach when a green and white Citabria swooped into view from above the restaurant in a steep, descending turn and appeared to cut off the RV. In the descent, wind direction rotated counterclockwise until it became a direct southerly crosswind.
Plane and Pilot
NOVEMBER 13, 2024
The ailerons feature a small flow-control trailing-edge flap to enhance roll control. Resuming a powered descent to enter the pattern, the aux fuel pump goes on and flaps are deployed to 15 degrees, and the aircraft trimmed to 75 knots for the approach. An electric stall warning vane is provided.
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