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Old 5th Mar 2015, 16:30
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Chuck Ellsworth
 
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I am reluctant to give flight training techniques on the internet by actually describing how I personally do it because without one on one contact I have no idea who I am communicating with.

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However.

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With regard to teaching height judgement I have found the students will get the picture faster and more precise using the following method.

From one hundred feet I count down the height in this manner.

One hundred feet.

Fifty feet

Forty feet

Thirty feet

Twenty feet...flare now.

Fifteen feet

Ten feet

Five feet hold off

Four feet

Three feet

Two feet

One foot

Contact


I teach them where to look at each phase of the flight so they will be looking in the correct area during each phase......

.....At the far end of the runway is never one of the points....

Over the past sixty years of teaching I find that method really takes all the magic out of the equation and they " Get " the picture.

There you go gang, any questions?
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