The ONE Trick for Perfect Landings

[@arpeltier]

I just floated seemingly forever today for this very reason. I wasn’t paying well enough attention after tower told me to keep forward maximum speed due to a jet coming in behind me. I was training IFR so I thought maybe I was struggling to transition from foggles to VFR, but my instructor immediately corrected me and told me it was because I had come in way too fast. Nothing to do with going from foggles to VFR. It was me missing on the basics and she knew exactly what I had done wrong.

[@georgejleonard9410]

Agreed...Good approach, good landing...else if you feel its unstable, go around

[@LetsGoAviate]

Absolutely. One can even say every landing is a go-around, unless all looks good, then fullstop.

[@TheAvaiator23]

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[@ericschoeman6613]

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[@gthree0239]

So tell me, when it’s gusty and you need to add speed to your final approach speed how shall I compensate for that’s added energy?

[@LetsGoAviate]

Only one place for the added energy to go, and that's running it out while holding it off the runway as long as possible.

[@AJAviator]

The speed is added to your Vapp or Approach speed, this speed must be bled off crossing the threshold or "fence" and your speed reduced to Vref (Vref = Vso x 1.3) or whatever the AFM says.

[@damiandiesel1]

If this need to be explained to a pilot in training, or worse yet, to a licensed a pilot, he is in the wrong bidness.

[@LetsGoAviate]

You might be surprised. I only learned about Vref sometime after completing my PPL, and have been approaching too fast all that time. Many other pilots don't know about either. In general students are told to fly a specific speed on approach. But how many get told how to calculate the correct final approach speed on any aircraft?