Blog – Short Field Landings 07/12/2024
Today’s mission was to work on Short Field Landings and sharpen these up.
The weather was a bit turbulent but nothing too bad.
After running through our pre-flight, taxi, run-ups, and take-off we flew around the circuit and ran thru the procedure for short field work:
The structure for Short Field Landings are:
- Downwind, confirm approach and threshold speeds and choose aim point
- Slightly delay turn onto base to ensure some power must be used throughout approach
- Monitor approach path by reference to the aiming point and adjust power to maintain a steady rate of descent – power controls rate of decent
- Established on final, select full flap and decrease airspeed by adjusting attitude
- Achieve nominated VTT by 200 ft AGL
- It is important to carry some power into the flare
- If the airplane is not properly configured by 200 ft AGL – go around!
- The round-out and the holdoff are combined into the flare
- Aim to reduce the rate of sink to zero at the same time as the main wheels touch the ground and the throttle is closed
- Lower the nosewheel, brake immediately, keep weight off the nosewheel with elevator backpressure
- Raise flap on completion of Landing
More details can be found here.
Without boring the heck out of you again , I was much better today. I had the power, speed, and glide slope dialed in. Nice one!
Next lesson we plan to keep up the accuracy and consistency so that I keep progressing and improve.
Until next time…
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Blog – Short Field Landings 07/12/2024