Originally Posted by Pace
The first and most important is to always keep the aircraft flying. Many fixate on one landing area and stall stretching the glide and that is the killer
Couldn't agree more, but this seems to me as a regular flyer with existing PPLs, that much of this is down to poor instruction.
It seems to be the FI norm that pilots flying PFLs have been taught to pick a field, and then do everything they can to make *that* field, as if doing so is some kind of point scoring game.
I see very very few PPLs when I practice PFLs with them - usually on checkouts and biennials - who show the capacity and wisdom to keep their landing site under review and change it as, when and if necessary to ensure an approach to a good landing site.
(I see other faults as well, but that's one of the most common. I suppose as also a microlight pilot still flying 2-strokes regularly, I am a unashamedly a bit of a PFL / field landing best-practice obsessive).
G