Click Here To Help Improving This Blog !One of my activities while I was active in Geneva was to introduce practical radio-navigation to students, using the club simulator. This was a preparation for the radio-navigation part of the in-flight syllabus, and this hopefully saved time and money.
Many students were slightly lost with the course selection and the use of the TO / […]
As for any skill, reaching a good level of flying is a mixture of talent and work. For some of us, flying seems simply natural. Give a talented pilot the controls of an aircraft, and he will land it smoothly, at proper air-speed, flare at the correct height.
Flying a lot, and with various type of […]
Each time I fly with an instructor for the first time, I can tell in advance what he will say: “too slow in final turn, and landing left on center line”. These are two recurrent problems I have to fight against each time I fly. I don’t know exactly where it comes from, but I […]
Making good landings in strong winds is not an easy thing, specially in light aircrafts. Many pilots have different techniques to land in windy conditions, and the most important thing is to find one that you understand and master.
There are two important guidelines for landings in strong winds, which are the base of all techniques:
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If you read this post, you’re concerned with your landings. They’re probably good, just because you care. The first step towards bad landings (replace it with any word…) is not caring about…
If after a long landing you just say “er… the runway is plenty long…” or “er… there was tailwind” or “er… the […]
