E-Series Landing Greg K

A conversation with Senior BPPP Instructor and long-time A35 Bonanza owner Greg Keshishian on special techniques for flying the traffic pattern in E-Series Bonanzas.

[@n3307v]

Excellent video. Nice to see I've been doing things correctly all of these years.

[@txkflier]

You mention certain airspeeds at certain locations in the pattern, but I don't think you said anything about setting the elevator trim so that the plane will maintain those speeds. I was taught to bring the plane to the desired airspeed using the yoke and then trim the pressure off so that I could relax my arm and the plane would maintain that airspeed. I would retrim after reducing power on downwind so the plane would maintain pattern altitude at 100 mph and also after adding each notch of flaps. Once I was on final and trimmed, I wouldn't touch the trim again. I see where some say they use the electric trim to help with the round-out so they don't have to pull so hard on the yoke to flare. I think that's a very bad practice. If you have to do a go-around, the plane will want to climb too steeply and you'll have to push the yoke forward while you remove the trim you added during the round-out.

[@n3307v]

Any chance I could get a PDF of your VFR landing Profile?