A little trouble with landings -- From a Student

[StogieC]

OMG!

It's a coordinated activity. We teach using rudder and aileron as a coordinated set of control inputs. What is so hard about teaching that power and elevator are used in concert?

 

[splash]

Now that I'm actually pulling the yoke into my stomach

Be sure every time you bounce to log each bounce as a landing in your book when you run out of yoke too soon.

Keep up the good work.

 

[subpilot]

I can't imagine the yoke being in your lap on a normal landing. Maybe it transitions to your lap on the roll out using aerodynamic braking. If you are landing with full aft elevator travel then you are going to have trouble with soft field rollouts.

 

[shdw]

If you are landing with full aft elevator travel then you are going to have trouble with soft field rollouts.

Not in the least...full stall landing. You are touching down mains first still, the only difference is you are already at the aircrafts minimum flying speed. If you touched down faster you would slow to that minimum speed and the main would fall to the ground just the same.


Txtbook: Good for you for learning full stall landings, keep using them always or you'll loose them and some of the aircraft control and feel along with it.


Stogie: Careful falling into that bracket of "they just always work together." Remember what you were taught about primacy and practice. If one learns that way and always does it that way, one time, one day, when they fall behind the curve and things don't work that way... http://forums.jetcareers.com/cfi-cor...ude-habit.html

 

[subpilot]

shdw: I'll just agree that we disagree to save the OP's thread.

TXTBOOK: I am glad that it is coming together for you. No better feeling than learning how to land an airplane on your own.

 

[TXTBOOK]

I was exaggerating when I said all the way into my stomach. I'm not using 100% travel. I just mean that before, I was being too timid with my control of the elevator.

Thanks again for the support