I always demo the first approach and landing having had airline pilots try and flare at 30' and another having been warned by colleagues to resist all feelings that 30' was just right, he tried 'minus 5'.
The perils of instructing!
I can understand how easy this is, though. A while ago, I tried to fly a PA28 (eye-line about 5' above the ground, I guess?), having flown nothing but a Europa (eye-line about 3' above the ground) for the best part of a year. It's hardly on the same level as Send Clown's student, but I still tried to flare at Europa-height, and the results weren't pretty
Since then, if I'm in an aircraft which I haven't flown for a while, I always take a moment to look at the picture out of the window before I start the engine, and try to remember that picture as I'm coming into the flare. Has anyone suggested this to airline pilots coming back onto light aircraft? Does it help them?
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