I'm a student pilot learning to fly in my spare time. I originally received 30 hours of flying instruction 17 years ago and now I'm back in the cockpit and learning how to fly all over again.
Currently flying out of Wollongong (YWOL), Australia in light sport aircraft such as the Jabiru with Fly Illawarra:
It's about energy management and placing, and keeping, the airplane on the center line. That last landing was a good example. Even though you were coming in on a short final, curving, you had that stick back deep at touch down and were in the middle. Almost all of my time was tailwheel and with 3-point landings. In that equipment and regime you learn this very quickly. Have it stop flying at touch down with the stick back. You'll get it!
any chance you could lower the music volume in future videos? Turning the volume up to hear the conversation only to have extremely loud music come blasting through is extremely annoying and distracting. Having to constantly ride the volume control is even more annoyance. Background music belongs in the background. Hopefully you have learned this in the 6 years since you made these videos. BTW I enjoyed the video portion even though I was annoyed every time the music came blasting through so I probably won't watch any more.
Thank you. I'm feeling very down tonight after having my worst ever landings at my stage 1 check. Absolute worst. Grateful you shared some bad ones... misery loves company. 😊
Nice. That is as far as I can tell, an awesome instructor. I’ve had some I’d like to throw out the door with no parachute, but it really comes down to how someone reacts to noob mistakes and teaches. True, we new pilots are most often a PITA, but having gone through a few certifications, I’ve learned that it’s ok to say, “this instructor isn’t working for me” and move on to someone who does. Nothing wrong with that IMO as long as it’s not me who is the a-hole in the scenario. I’ve been fortunate to have some awesome instructors, but also encountered a few that were just counterproductive to my personal learning style.
Haven't had any bad landings where i would go "whoah" per say, but been close for it to go from a "normal" feeling landing to "unnormal" enough times that i respect the possibility for things to go south real quick if you are not focused.
I wish I had seen this when I was learning to fly. Holy crap dude there's some bad landings I've never had anything this bad even from my Discovery flight. This is like next level bad like you should take a cue that you shouldn't be flying an airplane bad. You just gave me a huge boost in confidence knowing that none of my landings in my history of over fifteen years of aviation have been this bad
Basically I fly the same way I ride a dirt bike. Yeah you might bend it up a bit but you can hang it on the prop and bounce It off the runway. Don't be afraid to go sideways. Planes are more durable than people give them credit for.. You can be completely out of control and still pull it off. The gauges are just for reference. You can feel when the thing stops flying.
For my flight school, most of those landings are go around because they are almost off the runway, not centerline, or the instructor would take the control on all of them, you should buy some nice gift for that instructor for being super cool.
This instructor is really good. He listens and pays attention to what the student is doing and then corrects and instructs the student as needed. Really good way to gradually build on the student's skills.
