Hey Everyone, Jason Schappert here of MzeroA.com,
If You saw my live stream last week on the topic of
secret to perfect landings, well then you heard the tip of
slow flight down the runway, it's one of my best landing tips
and I'm going to showcase that to you here now.
I'm on the left downwind for runway 23, at the Williston airport,
and I'm going to treat this just as I would a normal landing. A perfect landing
after all, starts with a perfect pattern. So I fly my pattern normally, abeam my touchdown point,
carb heat, power back, roughly 1,700
rpms in this airplane, 10 degrees of flaps, I always do it in that order,
it's very procedural for me, you know if I just added ten degrees of flaps in while the power was still at cruise,
where would the nose go? It'd want to come up, I want to make sure I get this airplane started down.
Confirm that on my vertical speed, and that is confirmed, that nice decent about 400 feet per minute,
per minute coming down, slowing my airspeed on down, I was 90 on downwind, 80 on base,
70 on final, that's what works for this airplane,
slow flight down the runway is going to teach you how to control the airplane
at its minimum controllable airspeed but with some perspective,
Williston traffic, Skyhawk 23 MZ, is turning left base 23, be a low approach at Williston
on the radio too, I announce I'm doing a low approach, if it was a towered
field, you'd want to ask them for the option, or just plainly explain to them,
I'm going to just do a low approach a few feet off the runway, nice & slow,
if that's okay, they're going to just clear you for the option, is what
their going to do, there's no real ATC terminology for that, I just say low approach
as I'm coming in here, again, on base, like a nice normal landing,
slow the plane down, add some flaps in here, 20 degrees of flaps, watching final to make sure
final's clear, treating it as though it were a nice
normal landing, then we get into the slow flight,
as we enter into ground effect, we are going to have to give a little power, and then you'll notice,
you'll have to give it a little more power, and then a little more power from there. & Williston traffic,
Skyhawk 23 MZ is turning final, runway 23, low approach, Williston
traffic. Alright, & we're coming on through, I like to add some power
What I really want to do is I want to practice holding these wheels just
inches off the runway, without touching, we don't want to kiss the runway, right?
We're just going to try and hold it there, I'm learning how to control the airplane, I want you to
when you practice this, to realize how much rudder input you need. How sloppy
the ailerons get because there's just not a lot of air flowing over them right now, they're not doing a whole lot
if you did this at cruise flight we'd be all over the place right? So a normal landing
I'm normally 70 on final, I'm 72 right now, and everything is looking
great, pitching for airspeed, powering for altitude,
just as I would for a nice normal landing.
Everything is looking fantastic here, alright I'm looking
kind of ahead of my point here, I've got everything set up.
And we're just bringing it on in, I'm going to go ahead and I'm gonna go
on final, go to 30 degrees of flaps, and we're going to come on in
make sure I'm maintaining centerline awfully nicely, coming over this lake here
at the Williston airport on 23, I got a little bit of sink so I'm preparing for that,
PAPI lights show that I'm all good
here, and we're coming on in. Now,
normal landing's what I'm making it look like, normal landing
here, power's back to idle, gliding it on in, now when I get into ground effect
I want to give it some power, and I just gave it some power, I'm holding it here,
don't sink, don't kiss that runway, holding it here, holding it here,
little bit of power, don't touch down, don't touch down, give it some power,
almost touched down, look how sloppy these ailerons are, right? not doing anything.
don't touch down, giving it some power, holding it here
looking down, taking my eyes down that runway, holding it right here,
practicing just inches off, this is going to help you with the controls
I'm dancing on the rudders more than I'm doing anything else.
My hands are relatively steady, although when I want to show you how ineffective these ailerons are, I can take it down
to about halfway through the runway, and I can go ahead and discontinue, remember I have all those flaps
in, so I go full power, and now it's like a go around procedure, full power, flaps
usually go back to 20, fly it on out here,
through 70, flaps to 10, positive
rate of climb or zero, flaps up and out, just like a nice normal
go around procedure. Slow Flight Down the runway, it's one
of my best tips to help you nail your landings next
time, you're learning control, you're learning how to just dance
that airplane just inches off the runway, from there,
everything becomes a little bit easier, you're learning control.
Do slow flight aloft first please, and then come down here to the runway, find a nice long runway to practice
slow flight down the runway. If you liked the last live stream, I'm doing
another one, November 1st, I'm doing an accident analysis,
of United flight 173, this is the seminar I traveled literally all around the world,
doing, and now I'm going to do it live for you all who weren't able to see it live on FaceBook
and on YouTube so you can check that out, it's November 1st
link's below, and also, if you didn't win the BOSE headset last month, I'm giving away another
BOSE headset this month, you can get signed up at MzeroA.com/BOSE
and I'm going to announce the winner at the end of
that November 1st seminar. So put november 1st on your calendar, be there,
We're going to learn a little bit, laugh a little bit, and we're going to give away a BOSE headset at the end.
So, listen, enjoy the rest of your day, and most importanly, remember,
That a good pilot is always learning, have a great day guys we'll see ya.