Pilot Institute

OCTOBER 13, 2024

Key Takeaways Bounced landings can result from excessive speed, improper flare, or high descent rates. Improper Flare Technique The flare is a maneuver where you elevate the aircraft’s nose slightly just before landing to decrease the descent rate. You should use the rudder to do this. Was it a small or a big bounce?

Descent

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.

Approach

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.

Descent

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

We continued our descent for a couple of seconds and then he began a turn again to the left towards the taxiway. NTSB ERA22LA393 shows an airplane slow on approach that flared high. Although the traffic pattern was otherwise normal, the base leg was to the end of the runway, with no provision for final approach.

Gross Weight

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.

Runway

Air Facts

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

This descent used the same technique that (would have) had value in many of the NTSB accidents involving engine failure after takeoff. I think that currently, the most improvable aspects of general aviation safety likely will include improving basic flying skills including rudder usage and stall and slow flight well beyond ACS standards.

General Aviation

Chess In the Air

JUNE 24, 2022

Under normal circumstances Shmulik would have had sufficient altitude to delay the landing by several minutes: his glider’s minimum descent rate in still air was just 100 fpm. Even a more typical descent rate of 200 fpm would have allowed Shmulik to hold for about 5-7 minutes before he would have had to proceed with the landing.

Pilot

Plane and Pilot

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

The jaunty vertical fin and rudder enhance the fuselage lines, fitted with a fixed trim tab and aft position light. Rudder use is required, as it should be, to make smooth roll entry and recovery, and there’s enough roll/yaw coupling to nudge a wing back to level with rudder.

Knot