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Hey Everyone, Jason Schappert, here of MzeroA.com, I'm on the left downwind,
right now, for runway 23 at the Williston Airport
And I want to share with you three tips, three secrets to
Better or let's call them perfect Short Field Landings
First things first, I want to start my descent--this isn't one of the tips, this is just a fact--
I want to start my descent abeam my touchdown point, I'm aiming for the beginning of the second centerline strip
carb heat--power comes back--10 degrees of flaps, I always
do it in that order. If you go flaps first, where does that nose want to go? I'm already at a disadvantage,
You all know I talk about the secret to perfect landings, one of those secrets is:
A perfect traffic pattern. I want to do that! I want to make sure I've established descent,
you first tip comes here, you've heard me say the phrase that "airsped is king,"
I need you to manage your airspeed through this, now
I don't want you to be really dragging this airplane
in here. Remember what we practice when we do a shortfield landing--I'm going to make a radio call real quick
Williston Traffic, Skyhawk 23MZ is turning left base, 23, full stop
Williston. I don't want you dragging it in. A real short field landing
[mistakenly says takeoff,] we're pretending we're clearing an obstacle and hitting our point.
if you're just dragging it in trying to hit a point, you're doing a spot landing.
You're not doing an appropriate, short field landing here.
I want to manage my airspeed, is the big point.
I was 90 on downwind, I'm 80 on base, I'm adding my next knotch of flaps, I don't like to add
flaps in a turn, you've been following me long enough you guys know that, right?
I'm out here on base, & I'm slowing, I want to slow to about 70 on final.
And I want to bring this thing clearing my obstacle, and landing at the beginning of the first centerline stripe.
Is the point that I chose, final looks clear. "& Williston,
traffic, skyhawk 23MZ is turning final runway 23 full stop Williston"
Making, a nice smooth turn to final, already slowing down
to my 70 I've got my airspeed managed. Here's your next tip:
You're next tip is to aim ahead of your point. You should know your airplane,
by now, & know how well it floats. A 172 floats a lot.
further than say a Piper Arrow does, right?
You should know your plane, & know how well it floats. I'm adjusting my power, I pitch for airspeed,
I power for altitude, I'm at 68-67 right now, speed
is great. In the right seat I'm putting the centerline on my chest, if you're sitting
in the left seat as a student, you want to go ahead and put that on your right shoulder.
I got centerline down pat. Now, my third is going to
come after touch down, and it's something called aerodynamic braking, which
will be a little discussion here in just a bit. We're coming on in, I'm aiming
ahead of my point, like I told you in my second tip here, so I'm really aiming
at the beginning of the first centerline stripe as crazy as that sounds
here, but I know the airplane's gonna float. So let's say,
I'm clearing my obstacle, I'm over that imaginary 50' obstacle, now I can really start to bring that airplane on down
without picking up airspeed I can do that by adjusting my power, & what you're not
seeing is that I'm taking out millimeters of throttle, just bringing it back.
slowly but surely, aiming ahead of my point, aiming ahead of my point, here it comes
there goes my aim point, here comes my touch down point, right,
there. Just like that. Aerodynamic braking
back on the yoke, on the brakes, and in some cases
flaps up, to make it as realistic as possible, now I say in some cases
I say in some cases because some checkride examiners
especially in complex airplanes don't like the idea of
you going and touching the flaps, because there was an instance where
a student thought he was bringing the flaps up hit the landing gear switch instead. That makes for a bad day
so a lot of check ride examiners, don't want to see that, they want you to simulate
aerodynamic on the yoke & I'd be bringing the flaps up now, sir or ma'am, is all you would actually
say here, I did it for real this time, back on the yoke, flaps up, what
I'm doing is I'm adding the weight back to those main wheels, & Williston traffic 23MZ
is clear of 23 at Williston,
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