I saved myself in a mooney by dumping the flaps before the third bounce (I was really bouncing, it bent the prop tips). Dumping the flaps made it automagically do a perfect landing.
Thanks for sharing, great video. Would you be okay with me featuring this in my series Weekly Dose of Aviation? Of course you will be credited both in the video and in the description.
Hi. No problem you can share this as long as it with positive credits. What I mean. I shares this video hoping people would learn. I ve learned No worries . But when I read Some negatieve reactions I think they don’t understand my reason for sharing. So take it in you weekly dose of aviation
Great video, thank you for sharing. A great example of being too high and not throttling down power early enough. Go around was the absolute right decision, maybe a bit too late.
Slow down, stop trying to force it onto the ground. Do the opposite. Try to keep it off the ground. I know it’s already been said; but those flaps! That plane was flying him.
Happens when the plane is still flying and you're mentally hurrying to put the plane on the ground. Always go in your head "hold it, hold it hold it" even if you're coming in fast (and hopefully have plenty of runway left). On a recent training flight I was doing 95kts on the flare (so like +7 kts too fast for this plane) and managed to bleed off speed just by holding gently and not letting it balloon.
control your VS with upward pitch and reduced power, not downward pitch at same power. All your doing is gaining HS and VS in the wrong direction, thus a bounce.
Good on you for posting this. Keep your rudder under control for starters. Don’t come in so hot and so shallow. And above all. Circuits, circuits, circuits. Do more than they say you need, make it fun and you’ll nail it.
done that on my 5th local solo when doing my private and had to go around twice. It was very traumatizing.but I lived to tell the tale and am now doing my instrument rating- a whole different ball game with lots of challenges.
Every good landing starts with a proper, stabilized approach. You looked a little high here and that started the problem... but you also know after a few bounces you needed to reset, so kudos!
Don't take my other comment as an excuse though. It's not the CFIs fault here, you are MUCH to high and more than 10 KIAS faster than even the POH sais for MTOW in the Aquila. Half loaded you should have been at 55 KIAS rounding out, not 70+. You were that fast diving for the runway. This landing should have been aborted before the video began. That's no stabilised approach. Only one option for a flight school student and the best option for everybody else: Go Around! Good the Aquila can take a beating, you are fine and leaned something for free basically.
It took me way too long as a pilot to start really trying to understand energy management. To me this is a "too much energy" issue. I commend you for posting what I'm sure you feel like is not your finest moment. Excellent decision to go around. Safe flying!
Excess of energy is not really the initial cause. If you approach with too much energy, the flare has to be longer to let the time to the plane to lose that energy. The initial cause is that the pilot puts his plane too fast on the ground. After the first bounce, he pushes the stick down to force the plane to go to the ground, which causes a stronger bounce, again and again because of loss of lift.
@@pik2005 I understand what you're saying, but the reason his plane was too fast was because of too much energy. Now, too much is better than too little, but consistently coming in too high and/or too fast is a bad habit. Ask me how I know. 😁
Speed and VS were fine at the beginning, but since you were high, they went up when you aimed down to the touchpoint. Flaps where already full, so maybe a bit of slip would have helped. Good call on the go around. Thanks for sharing.
Everyone should learn to fly a taildragger. Learn what a proper stall landing feels like. Keep the nose wheel off the runway or light as long as possible.
yep...looks very familiar. happens to us all. You held your composure, throttled and when around. Nice! I can never get used to the sphincter squeeze however.
Many mistakes were made. Firstly, the approach was too steep and the speed was too high (just with that, it was necessary to go around considering the length of the runway). Secondly, waiting for three bounces before finally deciding to go around was another mistake. Lastly, retracting the flaps to the second notch when the variometer was not positive and the airspeed on the anemometer was close to the stall speed was risky (the pilot was lucky not to have experienced a sudden loss of airspeed at that moment, which would have caused the plane to stall).
I noticed the retraction of flaps, that was worse than the bounce... and he had his head in the cockpit making radio calls, during an extreme critical phase of flight.
