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hey everyone Jason Shepherd here of m0a
calm in today's video I'm going to share
with you three easy ways to improve your
landings and the first is this a perfect
landing starts with a perfect traffic
pattern how can we expect to have a
perfect landing when one time we're
tight on the dow and next time we're
wide which screws up our base which
screws up our final a perfect landing
starts with a perfect traffic pattern
but to understand that you need to see
it down when it's a little bit too close
and down one that's a little bit too far
so perfectly and it starts with a
perfect pattern look what a wide pattern
looks like you see the runway kind of
way out there if you're looking from
your C can you see how it kind of moves
up the window will fly what I call like
a bobber pattern right I want to always
put myself harder up to why in the
pattern I would always put myself in a
position if I lost my engine I still
make that runway out there the answer
right now in today's conditions is no if
I I'd be baby on airport property but
that fighty would be a stretch because
I'm so far out here I'm too wide in this
case I want to fly a more normal pattern
somewhere at the middle there so this
time I'm too tight on the down you see
the runway here can you see how short my
base is going to be when I try to make
this turn a perfect landing starts with
a perfect traffic pattern how can I
expect to be good when I'm all over the
place like this I'm gonna have a base in
this case when you're looking down here
with this by so let's bring the power
back and make it a short approach for
for as close as I have this in a highly
airplane where do you want that runway
on the down on the strut the lowing
airplane where do you want to see the
runway on the leading or trailing edge
of that wing that's what you have to
work on it burnt that sight picture of a
perfect pattern at the distance on down
with it to your mind so now that we're
flying at the perfect pattern it's
important to know and understand that
airspeed is kink like I said we have to
fly that perfect pattern how can we
expect a perfect landing when the
patterns all over the place how can we
expect a perfect landing when the air
speeds all over the place knowing our
numbers
what happens if you come in a little bit
too fast what happens if you come in a
little bit too slow
let's help to the cockpit and find out
so this time of it do something that's a
little bit hard for me here which is
coming in too slow about 70 to 75 out
here on base so I'm a little bit high
though which again is this the instinct
didn't you like I want to I want to have
a little bit of safety net here I've got
the power on back and Willis the traffic
to the bike zulus turning final for five
at Williston air speed is king I don't
wanna be getting slow this far out and
purposely keeping the nose coming down
obviously but I should be nailed my air
speeds I should look say for my airplane
I could be ninety on down with eighty on
base seventy on final slow into sixty on
short short final and make those
approaches again are you at miles per
hour are you at knots those numbers may
or may not work for your aircraft you
have to realize that that's just what
I'm doing I'm sharing here with you
alright so pump it on in here again
trying to come up too slow coming in
hold it 70 at this case here get it a
little bit slower here I'm going on and
everything's looking good looking good
and I'm holding it off you're trying to
get a little bit slower here powers back
slow slow slow coming on down and see
how sloppy the controls are really
getting when we're coming at this slow
in this case slow into 60 slow in here
and eventually have to do with that
dirty word we're going to talk about
here in a bit which is flair which is
back on that yoke as we come in so slow
and we're holding it off there we have
to be careful we come it's slow we can
end up slamming it on it and stall it on
short final in that case just something
else
to be mindful of you're gonna hear me
say this again and again throughout this
video airspeed is king I'm a little bit
high I've only got I'm like just give it
ten degrees of flaps here of on base
four five here about turn final and
we'll subtracted a bike zulus turning
final runway 5 . williston up a little
bit high up a little bit fast but about
90 right now and up still a little
I need to get down not gonna add any
more flops I just want to show you how
important something like airspeed and
I'll bring it close I'm making this
realistic if I gotta come across in 110
across the numbers here up and bring the
power back I'm just thinking you know
what would I do to slow down right we're
thinking all these things right so
they're bringing power back in to do all
these things but and then they look and
they go they're too high so where do you
put the nose you try to put the nose
down but what am I gonna do I'm gonna
pick up a ton of airspeed if I do that
instead I can bring the power back and
bring it down but either way again I'm a
purposefully coming too fast I'm just
gonna come in at 90 I'm gonna hold 90
and show you really a between 85 and 90
to really show you what that does to our
land this case of 85 right now I've got
10 degrees of flaps I'm basically on
glide path here jumping in again 85
looking good here
to show you what that float looks like
in this case I'm actually slowed to
about 80 now in this case it's hard for
me to fly fast in this case but even so
using that as an example here coming in
fast here let's come in at 80 across the
numbers here there we are
I'm at 80 I'm across the numbers here
and let's watch what it does if I was
trying to touchdown that five there goes
five first center line strike second
center line strike third satellite
stripe four seventy right now the house
and foot marks I'm at 65 I'm at 60 and I
touch down right here at 60 about 13 14
I was 1,500 feet down that runway
airspeed is king you're coming too fast
you're going to float the airplane was
still flying plenty even at 65 when I
was at ground effect like that keep that
in mind and lastly I want you to lose
the word flair from your vocabulary the
Space Shuttle when it came in to land it
would flare a triple seven coming in to
land flares a Cessna 172 a cirrus sr20 a
Cherokee 140 doesn't flare it
transitions that's what really happens
allow me to show you a flare followed by
a proper transition landing you heard I
don't like to use the word flare by the
way it's stead
I like to use the word transition 7:47
come into Lynn land flares the Space
Shuttle back when it would fly and will
come in for landing it would flare but
172 doesn't necessarily flare allow me
to show you why it's because we lose
such a sight picture in this case let me
show you why here we're coming on in
looks like a normal landing we're coming
in where it's 70 slow in about 65
everything's looking great here we're
coming in I'll bring it the power back
down we come down we come and all of a
sudden I just keep pulling back and back
and back
still warning horns on I can't even see
where there's could you even see the
runway of that case could just hear the
stall warning horn could you see how
abruptly we came down and when that
airplane stopped flying
she stopped flying even though we were
in about 10-15 feet that was basically a
controlled stall just about all the way
on down 172s general aviation aircraft
it said we transitioned in that case and
that's what i'ma show you next if a
perfect landing starts with a perfect
pattern what does that perfect pattern
look like it's that perfect rectangle
it's a downwind at the rightness it's
not too far away not too close where if
I lost my engine I can always make it
back to that runway it's maintaining my
appropriate altitude on my Daleth these
are the things I'm focusing on and it's
a managing my airspeed as well about 90
on my down right where I want to be here
maintain everything a beep my touchdown
point my carburetor heat pump is on I
break my power back up within a hundred
ten so I give it my first notch of flaps
flaps have a tendency makers know to
come up so using poor man's autopilot a
little bit of trim here to go ahead and
get that airplane on down bring a little
bit more power back to make sure I
actually started to set down here in
this case and fly this out again to my
45 degree point in this case I can still
descend it maintained 90 in this case
it's all about pitch and power
management in this case I'm just about
ready to turn my base I go ahead do that
will it's a traffic to three bike zulus
turn left base runway 5 . Williston
bacon chef keeping the nose coming down
the turn just cuz I brought a power back
there's me I can't touch it ever again
I'm still bring a little bit of power
back here as I'm coming on in looking
good as I'm turning my bass here and
coming out wings level in this case and
slow in the airplane on down just adjust
a little pitch I'll give it another
notch of flaps turn just if it is a kind
of a gusty day today so I'll probably
land with which me 20 or 30 degrees of
flaps in this case but I'm about 85
right now in a wide base that's ok on an
early base that's ok as I get a little
bit closer here getting ready turn final
I might give it my next hunch of flaps
right before I make that term a big fan
of flaps in a turn verify that final is
clear I've slowed the airplane now down
to 80 here I'm gonna go ahead and turn
final Wilson traffic to three bike zoos
turning final runway 5 . williston
everything is looking good here holding
83 this turn yet keeping the nose coming
down keeping that airplane flying here
I'm looking at a point in the runway I'm
looking at I want touchdown like the
beginning of the first centreline stripe
so to do that I'm looking at like the
number 5 the beginning of the number 5
here I might be a little bit high so I'm
not just in my pitch because I'll pick
up airspeed instead I'm taking out a
little bit of power I'm giving it right
next to final notch of flaps here's I'm
coming in slow into 75 and just give up
progressively a little bit slower making
these little adjustments wise we're
looking at five my eyes were looking at
my air speed indicator 75 is that air
speed there it blown around a little bit
but nothing we can't handle here 75
still my air speed but slowing towards
70 now as we now cross these trees and
come onto airport property slow it down
everything still looking great my eyes
are looking at that number five here I'm
at 70 now as I'm coming on in here
things are looking good I put that
centerline at this seat on my chest if
you're the left seat you're gonna put it
on your right shoulder in this case I'm
down to about 65 here coming across
almost runway threshold power smooth
back to idle because that runway is made
here in this case 60 coming across that
threshold here for a molded back
transition making my eyes down that
runway holding it off holding it off
there's a stone wearing right before we
touch down a nice smooth Bowl stall
landing and a little bit of aerodynamic
braking three easy ways to improve your
land is you have those in your flight
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