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Old 26th Jul 2010, 01:11
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Bigglesthefrog
 
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When I wore glasses I would very often find that I was flaring too high and dropping her on. Since having Laser surgery and therefore dispensing with all but reading glasses, my landings have improved out of all proportion.
I believe that this is because I now have a much better peripheral view than I had with glasses. This fits in with my old ex RAF flying instructor's advice, to look to the end of the runway and wait for the ground to come up in your peripheral vision and then keep her flying at that point until she lands herself.
I've never seen anything on the forum about the benefits of Laser surgery particularly associated with landing the aircraft, so I would be interested to hear from other pilots who have also undergone this procedure.

BTW.. I haven't typo'd the @ in LASER. For some reason it just comes up that way even though all the other "a" in the post come up normally. Strange eh
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