| At the time they realized the flare was too high, with too much speed. Why put a student through this, when his abilities to correct for this is way too much for him? He dropped the power when he was 3 to 4 feet off the ground, 1/2 way down the runway, "forcing" him to land even though the setup was poor, and the runway is being eaten up by long approach? Go around. . .get a BETTER approach (towards the first 1/2 of the runway). 1. They were 3 feet off the ground with enough power to make them float the whole length of the runway.. 2. They were way over speed. 3. They were drifting all over the place, and it seemed they were more focused on staying in the center of a runway that seems to be 200 feet wide. When learning to land, center of runway is NOT important, unless your runway is very narrow. 1. If you cannot successfully fly straight down that runway about 15 MPH above stall speed, you shouldn't be landing yet IMO. That means no ballooning. This involves controlling power, Altitude, speed, rudder, and elevator. 2. When #1 is accomplished the "setup" is there, and a little drift is fine. Now you can focus on distance above runway, power application, bleeding off speed, and if you float a little to the left or right on the center of the runway that is wide enough, that is fine. With #1 accomplished, he would not have drove the airplane into the ground when he let off the power. 3. Landing center of runway comes after you master landing with confidence, and can focus a little bit more on centering, instead of all the other stuff. Great to hear from ya! --- On Wed, 8/25/10, Michael Huckle <m230683@hotmail.com> wrote:
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