How to Fix your Landings | Tips for executing better landings

Landings are hard. Sometimes the right small tip or two can make all the difference and change how you think about the process. Check out this video and our ground schools for more training!
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[@crazypilot4017]

I almost skipped this video, like you said at the beginning…but then I remembered “that a good pilot is always learning…” 😎

[@antihero_antics]

Is that a. Is that a reference to…🤔🫡👨🏼‍✈️

[@Rodhern]

The ELT is designed to be triggered at contact with the ground. Any time it doesn't go off, I consider that smooth! ... ohh wait he said "always smooth" ... never mind then.

[@jimmydulin928]

Excellent video covering the use of rudder only to either keep/bracket the centerline between our legs or in a crosswind to drive our butt down the centerline extended. When we want to go straight to a target we don't want to turn. If we don't want to turn, we need no bank. If we need no bank we need no aileron with its adverse yaw. At altitude unless we lead rudder, we are not coordinated. The nose goes the wrong way initially and then we react by stepping on the ball. This is too late and way to disconcerting on short final. Good job with the explanation guys. Best I have ever seen.

[@txkflier]

On short final in a crosswind, I use the rudder to keep the wheels aimed down the runway and the ailerons to stay on the runway centerline.

[@badgerfishinski6857]

Good tip with the rudder for small changes. Works good in instrument approaches too. They must be only very small changes though..

[@stevekirk8546]

As ever, simple but very practical advice so clearly given. Thank you.

[@alk672]

The problem with steering with the rudder on final is that it changes drag, so you'll be losing your glideslope. Now you're destabilized vertically.

[@thenelsonbruhs722]

As long as you’re not making extreme rudder inputs, it shouldn’t be enough to cause a real change

[@alk672]

@@thenelsonbruhs722oh yeah it should in many common airplanes. I used to float like crazy in my Cessna whenever there would not be any crosswind. Took me a while to realize that I was used to landing in crosswind with rudder deflection, and without crosswind I just had much less drag.

[@thenelsonbruhs722]

@@alk672 I fly a Cirrus sr20 and have never noticed what you’re talking about. But I also understand that different aircraft obviously perform differently. So maybe it’s just a Cirrus thing

[@alk672]

@@thenelsonbruhs722 it would be less pronounced in a Cirrus. In a slow and bulky trainer it's very pronounced. You can actually use a rudder pedal as an airbrake as you come down towards the runway.

[@thenelsonbruhs722]

@@alk672yeah a forward slip. But like I said, that forward slip is only happening with rudder to the floor. And obviously reduced pitch and aileron to prevent loss of control.

[@Guerry-3]

Unfortunately, my flying opportunities are limited to MSFS. Nevertheless, I will use your technique on my next computer driven flying experience. It makes sense. However, as I think back, I remember that the rudder merely causes the aircraft to face in a different direction and does not really alter the direction of flight. If you could, please make a video that gives us a dividing point between making aileron and rudder corrections for a landing. Thank-you for your time and effort to produce this video for us. I look forward to your next posting.

[@johnopalko5223]

You can turn using only the rudder. They will be skidding turns that will look ugly and feel uncomfortable, but the aircraft will change direction. If you need to turn just a few degrees to get back on centerline, go ahead and use the rudder. Any more than that, use coordinated aileron and rudder.

[@Paul.V.24]

Great condensed info in this video!

[@marcelob.5300]

I recommend you to include the name of your channel at the beginning or at the end of your videos, possibly alongside other information as your social networks or whatever relevant. Thanks for your good content.

[@johnschmidt8440]

When making small corrections on final like this, adverse yaw is totally negligible. Anything more than just the slightest rudder inputs will cause the outside wing to come up in a skidding turn. Even the FAA handbook says not to look at the far end of the runway for the flare. I know some people do this, but I think it actually makes you lose some ability to accurately gauge your height above the runway. I never did it in 42 years of flying and if I had tried that, I would have instantly flown right into the ground. No doubt everybody does what they were taught and are comfortable with, but I disagree with that method, and so does the FAA. There are also many, many times when you can't see the end of the runway.

[@badgerfishinski6857]

Lindberg reference

[@johnschmidt8440]

I don't know what that means, but okay.

[@alk672]

Yeah looking at the end of the runway never worked for me either. I understand how it can help with lateral control, but judging your height over the runway? I don’t see how that could ever help.

[@johnschmidt8440]

I don't either. I suppose you can get used to it, but it really seems like something you should absolutely NOT do. Looking too close is also bad because then movements of the plane are too exaggerated, but there is a sweet spot where up and down and side to side movements are easily detectable.

[@pto200]

God one. I never heard it put in those terms. This could have helped me years ago.

[@dmacnet]

How does steering the center line to the seat of your pants keep you centered when you are sitting on one side of the plane, not the center?

[@SoloRenegade]

Cheating with the rudder rather than learning proper technique is not a good idea nor tip. It's not hard at all to apply proper rudder, especially in rudder lazy trainers. You get good at things by DOING them. Learn proper rudder control by DOING it.