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Old 7th April 2001 | 23:16
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Frederic
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Slow'n Low,
Rule number one: do what you feel most comfortable with! As long as you don't wreck the aircraft, you're fine. You'll learn the fine tuning as you get more experienced (even then, nobody's perfect, I've seen some 20000 hour pilots mess up their landings!) Nevertheless here's some personal typs: Think speed reduction instead of anything else. Learn to feel when you should close the throttle. You should so that your speed reduction results in the nosewheel being well of the ground by the time your mainwheels touch. Touchdown should never be soft, but not hard either, just try to give the ground a firm hug.Don't try to hard to make a perfect landing... at some point you have to let the aircraft land itself. A common mistake is not looking in the right place: I look at the point I want to land during the approach and once over the threshold I transfer my focus to the end of the runway.