Advise on landing technique
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Guys,
Sincere thanks for the many replies. I was flying early this morning, and I don't know exactly what was different, but my instructor didn't put a finger on the controls during the entire flight. Coming up on short finals I just said to myself, like what an above poster said, i'm doing this for fun, i've been thought this well and I can do it. I suppose it was just a matter of confidence. And what do you know, best touch & go I ever made. Followed that with 6 more just as good. For the full stop, we done a long landing as my FI described it. As our exit was more than 2/3's down the runway and we needed to expedite our vacating the runway, I flew a normal approch then held it at 60 knots the whole way down the runway, flying about 5-10 feet above the surface. When it was time to land, I just cut the power and held the nose back gently. For almost all of the landings I was getting the stall warning just a second before touch down, which is good.
That was great practise and is basically what was suggested by a number of you above. This was my first flight with this particular instructor, and he was asking me what my reason for not having gone solo before this, so I must have been doing something right!
My next flight is some more circuits just to 'hammer home' what I learned today, and a more of the technique as described by BackPacker. and then the solo checkride, so happy days! Again, greatly appreciate all of the more than valuable advice provided.
Sincere thanks for the many replies. I was flying early this morning, and I don't know exactly what was different, but my instructor didn't put a finger on the controls during the entire flight. Coming up on short finals I just said to myself, like what an above poster said, i'm doing this for fun, i've been thought this well and I can do it. I suppose it was just a matter of confidence. And what do you know, best touch & go I ever made. Followed that with 6 more just as good. For the full stop, we done a long landing as my FI described it. As our exit was more than 2/3's down the runway and we needed to expedite our vacating the runway, I flew a normal approch then held it at 60 knots the whole way down the runway, flying about 5-10 feet above the surface. When it was time to land, I just cut the power and held the nose back gently. For almost all of the landings I was getting the stall warning just a second before touch down, which is good.
That was great practise and is basically what was suggested by a number of you above. This was my first flight with this particular instructor, and he was asking me what my reason for not having gone solo before this, so I must have been doing something right!
My next flight is some more circuits just to 'hammer home' what I learned today, and a more of the technique as described by BackPacker. and then the solo checkride, so happy days! Again, greatly appreciate all of the more than valuable advice provided.
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Great! Sounds like you've cracked it! However, if next to you fly, things don't go as well (which often happens) don't be disheartened as it's quite normal 
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