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Old 12th Jul 2015, 13:41
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Pilot DAR
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About one in four actual landings for me will be a practice forced approach, just because I can. Even a busy towered airport will sometime allow it, as I did yesterday at a Toronto area airport, by asking for a slant base to final, while still quite high.

At my home runway, I have a distinct reference point 200 feet from the threshold, and that's my aiming point, sometimes from overhead. It keeps me sharp. I've been flying a friend's 172 taildragger, with all kinds of wing mods - it won't come down! I've been practicing in it, as I'm having to change my reference to where I'm going, or it will way overshoot.

On the obverse, while practicing and training my friend in the 182 amphibian, at 3350 gross weight, I found that the glide area was alarmingly small. It's kinda like a helicopter autorotation, look above your toes on the pedals, 'cause that's about where' you're going! Make a good job of that, rather than a very poor job what what you think should work.

Practice in the different types you fly, they glide differently....
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