Fix Your Landings With These 3 Tips

Do you know the difference between a round out and a flare? If not this is the video for you! Liz Brassaw (Chief Flight Instructor) explains 3 tips that she finds many instructors do not tell their students. Learn these 3 tips and take your flying to the next level. Blue skies
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[richardharrold]

My first cfi never taught me to look down the runway and never learned from him. Spent weeks trying. When I got my next cfi I told him I can't land the bird. So we go fly. My 1st attempt with him he asked where was I looking. I said point of touchdown. He said look at the end of the runway. I squeaked them the next attempt. Yes. You are absolutely correct.

[stanvangilder]

This is brilliant! I especially appreciated the discussion on round-out vs flare - really great stuff! Keep it up!

[chuckchuck]

if you punch your student when their not on the center line that helps too!

[rallyden]

Hardly anyone mentions using proper speeds and trimming for speed. When a pilot masters the skill of stabilized flight in regards to pitch and power, the rest becomes much easier. Common error is excessive speed resulting in a flat attitude at touch down.
Tailwheel flying can help in developing good techniques.

[justabill]

My CFI has never mentioned to look up to the end of the runway. Or even distinguished between the roundout and flare.

[tyethescrybe]

For me, it starts with being on stabilized approach. Before that, have an aiming point about 150-200ft behind the target touchdown, and pull power to remain stable and on the centerline with rudder/aileron corrections for any crosswind component, and begin the eye's transition to the end of the runway when the spinner passes the aim point, then rollout and transition to... as my last instructor said, "... you're trying to NOT allow the airplane to land" by gradually increasing the angle of attack just to within stall speed, depending on your configuration. Thanks for verifying what I've learned with these tips!

[xking]

#3 is what I struggled the most, until my CFI started “simulating” Radio Altimeter to me 😅 That did help!

[gnagyusa]

I fly a few different aircraft, and I use the "feel" of entering ground effect to control my flare. This is much more consistent between different airplanes than the sight picture, whether it's a high-wing or a low-wing.

[Adrian-qtqr]

Please, keep posting this kind of videos. As a relative new CFI, they help me a lot. I also suggest some content for (new) instructors.

[nietztsuki]

Great tips. Thank you for sharing!
There are so many ways to approach the landing process.

When I was a teenager back in the mid 1960’s, I got my introduction to flight training in a Globe Swift from my father – a military trained WWII P-40 and P-47 fighter pilot, and later a flight instructor for the Army. He taught landings much differently than how they are taught today.

My father treated every landing as a precision, power-off, flight maneuver. He would allow me to use power ONLY if I misjudged the glide so badly that I could not reach the runway. The use of power was, by his method, a sign of poor technique.

I recognize that flight instruction has changed over the past 60 years, but there is still merit in manner that flying was taught back in the golden age of aviation. To this day I still land using tight patterns and no power except when necessary.

[Warhawk]

Not sure how'd you teach landings without talking about these items. Good tips!

To help with the sight picture for the roundout, while you are on the runway for takeoff, take a mental image of what's you see when you are wheels on the ground. Use that to help visualize when to roundout.

Another random thing I would add, if you need a booster seat it will help. Now it all will depend on your height, the type of aircraft..ect. Over time I found out that students who struggled with landings, if they couldn't see over the instrument panel, their landings were not great. On the booster seat they could see over and have better vision when it came to round out and flare.

[Coops]

Excellent information thankyou! An area I've struggled with is too much airspeed on final. This flying error can be easily overlooked when in a small aircraft and on a long runway. My instructor taught me the three 'A's on final approaches. Aim, Aspect and Airspeed. If one or more are wrong, the approach is deemed un-stabilized.

[chucklemasters]

i think it's important to teach a student to use power on landings, especially while learning to land. this gives him a technique to choose when he wants to touch down. if you don't allow him to use power for the touchdown he must try to land the plane at some random point on the runway when the aircraft runs out of airspeed. it is much better if you choose the landing point by using the throttle and now you have a chance to get the airplane under control before touchdown. intitially just teach them to fly the runway over the runway in ground effect using ailerons to hold the centerline, rudder to counteract aileron input and pitch and power to hold it in a level attitude in ground effect just above the runway. i learned this technique while doing hundreds of tailwheel endorsements along with thousands of hours over and on the pavement. only way they will ever be confident enough to bring a tailwheel or nosewheel to the ground in challenging xwinds.

[christopherbowers]

Real solid advice! Thank you for the tips!!

[ryanblackburn]

I had a really hard time with the round out timing and my instructor tried a few ways to teach me but what finally clicked was don’t round out until the numbers (my aim point) disappear. Then it got immediately better.

[schillaci]

Regarding Tip #2. I know most of you won't like this but I find that looking at the Horizon does not help me judge my sink rate as some of you folk claim. I've mastered another technique (rightly or wrongly) which is to look just to the left of the nose about 10m ahead. It has worked for me since flying the the PA28 24 years ago all the way through to to the A320, B787 and B747. Hasn't failed me once.

[jtflypegasus]

The final approach speed is critical too, usually, around 1.3xVs this way during the roundout the plane is behind the power curve where the induced drag will become greater in dissipating the speed even more....preventing the floating effect. Other than that, right on. 👍

[uxbxkhi]

Great video very helpful. Thanks. 🇧🇷❤️🇧🇷❤️🇧🇷

[bobwright]

Thank you for the clear differentiation of the round out and flare techniques.

[magueyguate]

Thankd a lot for those tips. I am struggling with landing.