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Old 23rd Feb 2015, 01:20
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Welcome Lozzy, a few thoughts...

The information you present is not wrong, but thinking about it that much may not be entirely beneficial.

First of all, as said, receive the instruction which will be provided by your instructor.

Thereafter, consider that landing an airplane is less recipe, and more feeling yourself being always five seconds ahead of the next perfect thing the plane will do, 'cause you're controlling it. You're controlling it, but you're not thinking about controlling the plane, you're thinking about what you want the plane to do - your body does the rest. Focus on what the plane should do, not what you will do to make that happen.

When you drive your car around the corner, are you watching your hands on the steering wheel, to assure that they grasp the wheel and turn it just the right amount to guide the car? Or, are you looking at the clear lane before you, and your eyes picking the places within that lane where the wheels will pass? You looked there, did the wheels go there? - Probably fairly well, you missed that pothole and just touched the white line a smidge as you planned.

Think about the plane, including the third dimension, the desired speed, and the trend to the next thing (accelerating, climbing, banking etc.). Next, know that getting the plane over the approach end of the landing surface can be done many ways. You quote many numbers and measures, which are certainly one way, but there are other ways - you will learn them. So don't fixate. Don't think "pull now, push now, trim now", think gently control the plane to "trend it" gracefully to where you know it needs to be. Okay, that "trending" may have to be cat like reflexes, if it's turbulent, but you know what I mean.

Your instructor will demonstrate maneuvers. Don't watch their hands, watch the plane's motion, and then imagine yourself making the plane do that. Artistic, not recipe....
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