Landing an Airplane

[@gordonmccoy4537]

EXCELLENT produced Vid...! I use to explain to my students (back in the mid '70's at KFAY) the reason we practiced "turns around a point" is to take each quarter of the turn and super-impose THAT quarter to the traffic pattern - upwind to crosswind, crosswind to downwind, downwind to base, and base-to-final approach and we teach and incorporate climbing and descending turns for the same reason... It all goes back to "traffic pattern work".... I would also teach, from downing to touchdown, a power-reduction concept - you can decrease power but can NEVER add power unless there is a requirement for a "go around" or in gusty wind conditions.... I really admire your teaching of the nose wheel HAS to settle down on the CENTERLINE of the runway...! Again, GREAT Vid...! Thanks for posting this...! Gordon in Maryland

[@kennethrodmell9006]

One of the better 'how-to-land' videos I've seen [former instructor, 5,500 Hrs]. It didn't labor 'fly-by-numbers' but did give sensible advice on accurate nose attitudes and interpreting the runway aspect. I did however cringe at the adverse aileron yaw, which really should have been nailed on the 'primary and secondary effects of controls' lesson.

[@nosweatfinance]

Thanks, I’d rate this top 5 of all instruction flying videos I’ve seen. I really like the visual comparisons of right/wrong.

[@varnk]

I'm not a pilot, but am fascinated by these type of videos. This is one of the best landing instruction videos I have seen yet. Simple and concise.

[@ichhasseamerika]

Absolurely brilliant explanation. I'm not a pilot yet, but can feel myself being sucked into the fascination :-) . this demystifies a lot of things, inspires and gets me excited about learning more - and trying it out someday! thank you so much! ( by the way, the more I learn about flying, the more respect I have for commercial pilots and pilots of all kinds and how much they have to be on top of and on the ball. especially airline pilots who have sometimes 150 + lives in their hands. great respect!

[@anilwamane9532]

Absolutely I love the way this explanation goes around though I too not being a pilot but I used to play X plane simulator a lot with great pleasure that I wanted to know a perfect feeling of landing and learning about with utmost enthusiastic way.. thanks for this great instruction..

[@beagle7622]

First solo 500 foot ceiling foggy with good visibility below the fog. Turned finals pulled out full flap dropped power & the altimeter hardly moved . I had to go around & slip it in, fortunately I knew how to do it. My instructor was delighted, I just did what I had been told what to do. I was flying an old Auster, I loved that thing, hardly responsive but heaps of fun to fly & learn how to land. Landed on dirt very few paved runways around where I live.

[@Howshallwesay]

During my flying training I was concerned that the stall warning occured each time I touched down. My FI said that was good, stalling on the runway is a perfect landing (except on an aircraft carrier!)

[@gordondean2110]

Your CFI is correct. The slowest the A/C can fly is its stall speed. Since the forces that cause the A/C to swerve (on the runway) are proportional to the square of the airspeed, you can see that having the slowest possible airspeed at touch down reduces these adverse forces by a significant amount. Some will say to use a higher approach speed in a cross wind. No, just put in sufficient wing down and rudder to compensate for the X-wind component and land with normal A/S. In VERY gusty wind add maybe 5 knots to your normal approach speed.

[@bka.k.abecca7189]

after wacthing 23 videos on YT about landing I finally find one that suit my need than you :)

[@ghulamahmed1855]

Explaining is very good ,Understand every word of it ,explained every bit of landing in short video

[@pauldayonghuang9284]

three stage landing - flare, pitch attitude, touch. eye on the straight down far side of the runway.

[@ThresholdProductionsCanada]

I remember my first landing, it was actually the first time I flew in a Cessna 172. My instructor was satisfied with my skills and simulator practice outside of flight school that I actually got to land.

[@1UTUBEUSERNAME]

And then everybody applauded.

[@Cousin.]

The airport in the first shot of this (& other Sporty's Pilot Shop) video, is Jackson County Airport. 24A It's on a hilltop, in the Blue Ridge Mountains. NC

[@gauravdhande3954]

Amazing video on landing airplanes! Have you watched james asquith's video where he lands the palne in the forest?

[@manxcat5]

Really good , showing the "picture" of the runway .

[@gordondean2110]

Teaching flying, I used the term 'picture' also......very descriptive.

[@rogeriolopes6297]

Excellent video!

[@claytondyess4658]

This is a great video. Thanks

[@Pilot_engineer_19]

I think you need more. Like rate of decent, how to know when you are 10 ft above the runway, and exactly what the pitch is at any time during the landing. I saw some videos with Synthetic vision which gives you exactly what you need to land a plane. How do you do this with out this aid?

[@stephenaviaspace5056]

practice and intuition. You'll know when you practice.

[@nemome5837]

So I should paint a long black moustache on my windscreen?

[@jmitterii2]

Some do use a dry erase marker to help train. But you just need to realize what you're looking at and why... the marking just shows this vividly for the slow among us. Just know that your aiming point should drift down or up on a stable approach to land, but just stay at the same place on the window. If aiming point drifts up, you're too low and need to decrease your rate of descent to get back on a better glide path. Add power. Keep pitch for speed as needed. If aiming point drifts down, you're too high and need to increase your rate of descent to get back on a better glide path. Reduce power. Keep pitch for speed as needed. Power for altitude, pitch for speed for landings. And really, this same concept is essentially for keeping altitude and speed controls for any part of the flying. Just some other stuff to consider.

[@lertoraexequiel]

Where can I download this plane?

[@POWARENJA]

Great video.

[@mecanicodejetski]

I had problems finding the 10 Ft , after 14 hours of landings, still having problems with the flare, ye i can land the plane but not perfect.

[@keiffmck9325]

What airport is that in the very first scene, looks like its built on a ridgeline

[@calliepieters3446]

Bought a Kit Fox 4, I'm learning how to fly on the INTERNET !! LOL !! thanks

[@cherfieldm]

Thanks, nice video.

[@deanmiles3505]

Try looking for the Young Eagles program which allows 8yo.to I believe 18yo. to fly with a pilot at normally no cost like an introduction flight. If lucky enough you may find one who is a CFI (instructor) that can sign off on the time as well. It's a great program for kids. They will accept donations but it's not required. There a great group of people. Good luck.

[@danieltosini8189]

aewsome ! i use to see as nacele"s training. thanks for sharing.

[@edilbertosantana8307]

Excellent.

[@eramos5610]

NICE

[@Juliette_4]

tOO BAD THERE IS NOT A ALERT DEVICE THAT TELLS THE PILOT WHEN HE/SHE IS 10 feet above the runway. This would make it so much easier to initiate the round out

[@wano]

sangat keren.. salam indonesia.🇮🇩🙏

[@15theoren]

I find this useful for my fear of flying no joke

[@Ichibuns]

Learning how an airplane functions is a great way to get past the fear of flying.

[@MrBestard]

Flight simulator 2020 brought me there.

[@sherebanuburhanuddin2666]

Play extreme landing you will understand ,there is missions ,it is exellent

[@marititi64]

if I keep this training courses I will be flying before getting in the aeroplane thanks like it

[@digitalT83]

I always knew the wheels were supposed to go on the bottom

[@rdlez]

I know AGL means "Above Ground Level", but what's the height valve? Like if I'm 500 feel below clouds but really I'm 700 feet AGL. Does that mean at ground level we are 200 feet higher than see level and I'm suppose to add that to those figures? Surly, y'all can see I'm a rookie. Thanks for your help in advance.( Please no wise cracks okay? Thanks)

[@brandon5058]

rdlez It depends on the elevation. AGL means how high you really are above the ground. So if you are flying at 850ft and there is a mountain thats 850 ft your AGL is 0 ft. When runway elevation is 200ft you would indeed need to calculate 200ft + your original height.

[@bssumner1]

Very helpful.

[@tangobayus]

You say a pitch change requires a power change, but you don't specify the change. If you pitch down do you reduce power?

[@ftb8218]

Yes you'll reduce power otherwise you'll speed up and descend too quickly

[@calartian85]

Got it. Come on, PowerBall!

[@alqumran5379]

Good landing. It's the sorts of version I preach as an Instructor. Very hard to get some of those heads working in the left hand seat. I have access to a DH82A Tiger Moth which I usto to ENLIGHTEN those who have trouble with landings !!!!!!!!!! Surly landings in airplanes is on a par with Chopin! piano. I don't know why students find it so hard Ha Ha Ha!!!!!

[@gordondean2110]

Good video.

[@feal1980]

I definitely have not been doing it this way 😬 My landings are 🗑

[@lw216316]

"landing from outside the airplane..." I do all my landings from outside the airplane. I'm a remote control pilot. I've walked away from every crash I've had. :-)

[@HorizonSpeed26]

lol

[@davidsandell7833]

lw216316: My grandson is a UAV pilot in the Army. We are really proud of him.

[@45631063]

tank you very much !!!

[@annabuivis6965]

well i hope that i cold fly but im only 11 so i think i have some more years to come

[@nrjstudios6997]

Minor Preference , Well that will help this kid become a pilot, My advice is to work hard to it and someday you would make it.

[@lawrenceo3185]

anna buivis Keep on dreaming. I wanna be a pilot too someday and I'm still12

[@annabuivis6965]

kayyyyy

[@gordondean2110]

You can fly at your age......go the the airport, arrange for an Instructor to give you a first lesson. As a CFII, I found that taking a young person flying is very enjoyable. The instructor needs to send some time (like 1 hour) explaining A/C control before you get in the airplane.....so that you can better understand what is happening once in the air. While in the air, you should be doing most of the flying with the instructor telling you what to do. Years ago, on a 1000 mile trip, my 8 year old niece did most of the A/C control in a Cessna 182. It was fun for both of us.

[@snowball8940]

anna buivis I’m pretty sure you can start flight training at any age

[@angelrivera547]

i love flying a cessna 152 and 172

[@gordondean2110]

Yes, the C-150 is a very light A/C but it also costs less to fly than a C-172. Its handling qualities are actually pretty good. And its features make it easy to step up to a C-172 or a C-182. I fully understand your remark about balls......

[@jwolfgang2026]

this is a total 2009 video but wow 2022 not a bad tutorial

[@tugcebetul6399]

So gooood

[@BltchErica]

What if you don't do it right and overshoot as shown in the video? Do you die, or just have a rougher landing?

[@chrishansen456]

Gurosama Bltch Rougher landing

[@ClarinoI]

You go around and try again.

[@blueb0g]

I would argue that in this demonstration, "normal" was still too low.

[@kilroy914]

Agree

[@thejakey46]

my instructor always says high and fast is better than low and slow. Gives you more room for maneuver

[@MrTurbine777]

Disagree. The low they showed for me looks normal. Guess it's like anything else in life and how you did it first. Of course every landing is different, but in calm winds, low elevations, good weather (temps), I always prefer a low profile approach. Maybe the military man in me? My first plumbing boss 40 years ago was an insane perfectionist and since then I've yet to find anyone with a fraction of my own precision, obsessiveness and quality in what they do. I don't contribute it to me, but the man who taught me. Guess it's the same for a pilot who learns how to fly and always have contingency vs the person who rents a plane twice a year (at best) that just isn't comfortable with "flying".

[@ichhasseamerika]

Hey, so I can learn to fly completely from youtube, right? (KIDDING!)

[@vedymin1]

People fly these too much like airliners, this is a piston engine not a turbofan, it has an almost instant reaction to throttle and a much lower dependability. Also the plane you are flying has a much lower speed range than an airliner. It is much safer to fly a higher approach most of the time, look at ww ll landing techniques, they almost guarantee that in case of an engine failure you will have the runway made every time. Dragging yourself close to the ground with a much more failure prone engine just so that you can do that 3 degree glideslope like big iron does is like dropping all your life insurance out the window. Liners need to fly like that thanks to how their engines respond, their range of useful thrust, the range of speeds for landing, etc etc. Ga's don't. And if you need to drop that altitude, just do a slip.

[@MrTurbine777]

Sporty's, like many others, are "Screwing the pooch" so to speak. I've bought 2 complete PPL and IFR DVD sets from Sporty's over the years for no small fee and last year I looked into buying my 3rd. Sadly they now do the cloud BS and you no longer own something you can watch at your leisure. If you buy it today, get busy (like most people) and your year ends, then you must pay for it again, and again, and again. It's now a never ending rental agreement and I WISH I could post an image here to show the response I was given last year when I politely inquired about it. I was once a major Sporty's contributor and now I hope they crash and burn for not just their selfish and greedy practices, but how I was talked to by their supposed MOD (manger on duty). Mind you, I talked to the MOD AFTER the initial insult. Greed is the new, them. I still use their site. Though very slow these days, I still have my reasons. The last 4 (maybe 5) thousand dollars I spent was after reading about it on their site and then simply Googling it and buying it elsewhere. I can only imaging that the great man, Richard L. Collins kept these selfish bastards at bay while he was alive and now that he's dead they stomp on his grave. Burn in hell you selfish has-beens.

[@botyaltotertutal468]

Just hold space lol

[@spiro5327]

Great video except the spelling in the title is not correct. It is AEROPLANE not AIRPLANE.

[@flyerboy2594]

silo granz remember America and Britain have different spellings

[@spiro5327]

anna buivis PATATOOLES

[@56nintentendo]

silo granz it's original name is aeroplane you idiot

[@UncleKennysPlace]

No, its original name was "The Flyer".

[@nemome5837]

@@UncleKennysPlace The Flyer was an aeroplane and we go to places on aeroplanes, not on "Flyers". Glad to help.

[@crankychicks]

👍🏻

[@alqumran8930]

You need to understand the flight formula to do anything professionally in flying an aeroplane.ie., CLHALFEROWVSQUAREDS. The buck stops here.

[@stevenhaynes7078]

You don't flare in a Cessna. That's why I gave a thumbs down.