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Old 2nd Sep 2002, 19:05
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Whipping Boy's SATCO
 
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The CFI at my flying club told me 70kts (PA28-161) when solo. I kept finding that I was floating a long way before touchdown (not good on a relatively short runway!). One of the other instructors said I should try 65kts; it worked a treat.
However, I was flying on Saturday, had a peachy landing at Kemble (nice bacon butty!) but on return was faced with 15kts straight across the RW with no headwind/tailwind component. One could say that the landing was somewhat interesting. I was wondering if a different approach speed may have helped?

BEagle, I'ld like to try your point-and-power technique; could you explain/e-mail?

PS. Got my PPL, but definitely still willing to learn.
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