Landing a cessna 172 in rw?
Hello everyone,
I am a teenage kid who started to work on my PPL nice and slowly and am obsessed with flying and hope to be an airline pilot one day. Anyways I have only about 10 hours currently. I fly a 2003 cessna 172SP. I have known how to land since my second lesson. I land perfectly normal like any other pilot. Sometimes I have a rough firm landing and sometimes I have a smooth greaser landing. My instructor always gives me tips on landing, and I am getting better every landing with his help. I was just wondering from all those PPL’s out here on these forums, can you give me some tips on smooth greaser landings in the cessna? Maybe I can cause a surprise next lesson haha, thanks in advance everyone!
My personal procedure for a greaser
GOOD APPROACH!
if you’re going to land like a champ, you have to get to the airport like a champ, be sure to gauge your distances and use proper power/flap/speed management in the approach, when you make that turn to final you should always be 2 red 2 white, if not back to square one untill you are.
Short final-
manage your power/pitch to hold 65 as normal, cross the threshold between 30-50 feet, keep the power where it is and just keep pitching for 65. you should be aiming for a spot just after the numbers so that you hit the 1000 foot markers on the runway.
10-15 feet, SMOOTHLY pull that power back, at the beginning I used to just yank it out, and this is “Okay” But it creates a tendancy for the airplane to want to nose dive, best technique is to ease back pressure while simultaneously and smoothly pulling power to idle,
Work it-
get yourself well into the ground effect *about five feet* and the airplane will just want to float….apply your crosswind correction now and get the nose centerlined while easing extra pressure to compensate for your loss of lift as you slow, keep pulling back while allowing the airplane to very slowly get closer to the ground, don’t let yourself balloon the landing.
*Grease*
smoothly apply brakes and keep a bit of back pressure in to relieve the nose wheel of a heavy load.
Done
more than anything this takes practice, you’ll get it down though to impress your check examiner. Best of luck.
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