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Old 14th Jun 2014, 12:52
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in an aircraft with side by side seating the pilot sits on the left side.
so peripheral vision out the left side forms some of the input to your landing judgement, while of course looking at the far end of the runway.

here is a tip based on experience.

if you habitually land on a small strip, or a narrow strip and then you fly to a very large runway, landing on the centreline can see you not having any of the peripheral cues that you normal subconsciously use in landing. you can botch a landing badly.

land in from the left side of the large runway the same distance in that you normally land on the small runway and all your subtle peripheral vision height cues will still be there.
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