Tips on landing?

[empire]

The term 'flare' might mean that, but with an inexperienced student, i find it more effective to tell them to 'transition to the landing attitude' ... it creates a more accurate mental image of what they are supposed to accomplish.
For some reason, the term 'flare' sounds much more dramatic, and as a result, a beginning student is likely to show you a more dramatic landing, when you tell him/her to flare.

 

[Roger, Roger]

The term 'flare' might mean that, but with an inexperienced student, i find it more effective to tell them to 'transition to the landing attitude' ... it creates a more accurate mental image of what they are supposed to accomplish.
For some reason, the term 'flare' sounds much more dramatic, and as a result, a beginning student is likely to show you a more dramatic landing, when you tell him/her to flare.

Ok, I guess I can buy that.

 

[JustinA]

If I had students struggling on landings or just to teach aircraft control, My trick to success while I was instructing was this: Before you can land in a crosswind situation, you must learn how to use the rudder. So I had my students fly around without touching the yoke. We would do turns, climbs, and descents. This also teaches you how to use the trim. Trim to climb/descend, rudder to turn. Now once we learned how the rudder affects the aircraft, and how much rudder to put in, we would take in to the pavement.

Now the fun part. By the way - Remember this while landing - Aileron into the wind, opposite rudder.

After doing a few warm up landings, we would come in for a landing and fly right over the centerline all the way down the runway. Never touch down. What does this teach us? Visual - look down the runway. You can see how much rudder you need to straighten the nose up with the centerline. You can feel the need to let off the rudder slightly, or push the other rudder (same thing), as the wind changes. Aileron - You can see how much is needed to keep you lined up with the centerline. It's all about feel and getting comfortable being close to the ground while making control changes, which was a problem for some students. I would suggest learning in a 8 knot crosswind or less situation. Good luck!