10 Tips To Improve Your Landings | Cessna 172 and Others 

I’ve been flying since 1966 and I have never seen a more distinct, clear and a simple explanations on how to fly. Please keep it up!

I need this kind of instructor. He teaches adversities without alarming. Good job instructor.

I have about 300 landings and am still dealing with some of these issues. Thanks for the video!

Thanks a lot. I am doing my PPL in EU, just after 6 hours of flight, but besides my very good CFI, I learn a lot from your videos.

Thank you! I had my first landing today and the front tire touched first, must have bounced at least 3 times. Nerve wracking but very excited to get back out there and try again with my instructor

This video was SPOT ON!! Tips 4-10 were the answers to my prayers 💐I’ll give you your flowers now sir.. Excellent content

Wow, I did a lot of touch and goes yesterday and this video could’ve helped me. Great videos!!!! Please make more

I've used the analogy of driving a manual transmission many times to help people understand why muscle memory is important!

I know I make a lot of comments, but don't take that the wrong way. I very much appreciate your work and I learn something new with every one of them. I would just like to mention that at 28:12 you comment that airspeed deteriorates exponentially. Without power, your airspeed is overwhelmingly governed by the effects of the total drag curve. I think your demo is the best I've ever seen that shows how that works. The curve is usually steeper on the lower airspeed side of the point of minimum total drag, thus airspeed bleeds off at an increasing rate as it decreases.

As always, thanks again! With just 14 landings behind me I needed this!!

I really love your video. I'm a instructor myself, but your tips are easy to understand and understand right away for new student pilot.

Great video and so helpful as a student pilot. Thank you!

This helped me a lot. Thank you.

Thank you so much for this video!! Feeling really overwhelmed with landings. This really helped.

I wish I found this channel a waaaay before! My ppl check ride is about to happen :) Thanks a lot for all your efforts to make these videos! Love it! So simple and so informative at the same time!

BRILLIANT TIPS 😊😅❤😂 TEACHING US ALL TO BE BETTER PILOTS..😊😮😢❤😂 SAFER..COOL..THANKS

To be real this video has been helpful, I watched it yesterday today I was released solo, my approach was stable on the glide slope and my landings were smooth 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾… I’m tuned for more tips 💯 Thanks ✌🏾

As always good and useful lesson!

11:50-13:36 you’re an awesome CFI, I wish I had a CFI had instructions like yours.

Excelente Vídeo very detail honest clean and true

Got to do some ascending and descending turns today, your vid’s have definitely helped my confidence. 🙏🏾

This is so helpful. Thank you so much for sharing

Awesome, thanx!

Great video. I found many of these tips very helpful. Thanks.

These videos are so great! I bet you are an awesome instructor! I wish you continued success!!

Another fantastic video from you ,thank you so much-what makes you so special you really know what new pilots might struggling with and hit the point precisely but comprehensively ,well done

AWESOME VIDEO ! BRILLIANTLY explained & set out 👍 WELL WELL DONE ✨

Great video Josh. Thank you for the tips. 🇺🇸🛩️

It took me forever to get my landings down ... a different instructor basically taught me what your showing in this video ... Kudos to your methods of teaching!

I have watched years of different instruction videos and yours are very well done...great job...excellent, clear tips Captain 👌🏽👌🏽🙂🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙏🏽

“Left base four 36” to you newer students eliminate using 2 or 4 before giving a runway. This can easily be confusing for other pilots listening to you and can be a safety hazard. “Left base three six” is all you need to say. Besides that as always amazing content! Love the videos

Thanks for this one!! Not started getting my licence yet but this all is great to prepare me for that early muscle memory.. I think due to these videos I'll enjoy things better..

Thanks for a great lesson! I needed some swing thoughts before heading to my lesson today. The chair flying suggestion is great, so helpful to visualize everything and have your pattern procedures set. Also nice tip about anticipating overshoot based on wind direction.

This video was soooo helpful! Thank you!!

These videos really are great! I learn new tips every time I watch one.

Thank you, this has been instructive

Thank you for all the amazing videos. I have been watching since the beginning of my private pilot course. I am now past instrument and about to finish commercial and I got to tell you, I have watched almost all your videos, really good stuff easily one of my top 5 or even top 3 channels. Hopefully some Commercial content coming out soon!

Excellent! Going to try out tommorrow!

Amazing video

Awesome stuff. I am working on my PPL and at this very stage. This is some really good stuff

I’m a student pilot and love your videos! Thank you so much for making this content!

AWESOME THANKS

This has to easily be one of the best explanation videos ive ever seen in the aviation world…. And boy have i seen alotttt of videos!!! Thanks, def subscribed after seeing this

Nice tips I loved it

Thanks you for some good and helpful tips! Greetings from Germany.

I’m doing my first landing on my next lesson. Im glad I found your video. Thanks for the tips!!!

Another big thanks man! I've watched every one of your landing videos multiple times, and thanks to you, am really starting to get some buttery ones! You should totally make the video about dropping flaps in a turn, I would be so interested in that!

This is one of my favorite youtube videos. It is very clear and helpful. I am always nervous when landing, and I can’t control the speed and height. This video is a good answer to my confusion. I know that I am not doing it right. adjust the throttle is very important.thank you !!!

Thank you so much! this video helped me today to have good landing!

Very useful tips, thanks. Tips 6-9 exactly what I needed to fix my hard landing 😊

Great review. Just coming back after a long involuntary hiatus ! Thank you !

I came up with Speed Height Center Nose...that's the priority list on final......great video

Thank you so much for this channel!! Just passed my PPL check ride. This video regarding landings was crucial. Again, thank you.

Hey Josh, thanks for the videos they’re super helpful! Will you be making a video on advisory circulars?

Great Great Video! AIr Speed really is KING

Thank You Sir

This was a great video, one that I think I really needed to see. Landings have been my biggest problem so far and I've been trying to improve, but just wasn't really sure what the key was. This was very helpful. Hopefully it makes a difference for me!

Muy buen video mi pana de mucha ayuda 👏

Thanks. Great tips. My next flight is Friday. I’m sure to apply these tips to improve my landings.

This is by far the absolute best teaching video on how to land that I have watched.

Such a great video! Keep it up! And on a side note……What are those sunglasses???

You are the best of the best

best video 🎉

Hello from Bixby, OK. Really cool to see runways I land at on other people's videos.

This is interesting b/c in Canada our training is to start our descent at the turn from downwind to base rather than abeam the numbers as I see in many videos. There are many little differences between FAA and TC rules for training but it is mainly about being consistent.

Excellent video. I will use this info with my students as well. Just curious, did you make that video regarding using flaps in a turn? I'd like to see that. Thanks!

Awesome video with very helpful practical tips and instructions! Thank you! Question: what GoPro Mount did you use on the front dashboard? Was it sticked on, suction cup or magnetic? Cheers

This is a great video to learn before l attend to flying school. I must subscribe to this channel..

Great video. I'm getting a flight sim setup to help with the "chair flying". Something tells me it'll be a good investment, especially with a teen daughter about to start flight school this summer.

This guy the goat

This video is very helpful for newbie Pilots like me 👍

13:32 - "I'm off centerline" Dude is way over in Europe so far off lol

50 landings, and my CFI is ready for me to solo. It's definitely an interesting mix of emotions.

160 hr PPL here, I still find your explanation very helpful. The only question is why the touch-downs in this video appear to be flat with all three wheels contacting the concrete at the same time. I was taught to always get the mainwheels touching down first and keep the nose high as long as I can for airbrake effect.

This was an Awesome instructional video and The only time I have seen someone memorise a checklist and was required was fighter pilots in Canada on a documentary watching students becoming a fighter pilot. I understand you simply don't have time to use a paper checklist when the enemy is comming . they won't wait till you go through the paper checklist lol

great vid! which model GoPro's are you using? super quality

I never thought about chair flying the pattern, usually I chair fly to practice maneuvers at home. My instructor said my landings were a lot better!

Excellent video well done 👨‍✈️can you do a side slip to positioning your self centreline to the runway with a p28 ? Cessna doesn’t allow because it takes the airflow away from the horizontal stabiliser and you will end up with a tail stall, I will try that at high altitude and see how much effect there will be

My instructor told me off for putting down flaps in a turn, so I'm interested to see your take on this.

Hi. I really like that chair muscle memory image.

Not on topic but the scream at the beginning sounds like the beginning of, “Better off Dead”, an 80’s movie with John Cusack. Great tips BTW! Like the video!!

I really like your gross control movement when necessary and then take half out. I continue this with dynamic proactive rudder only movement when we capture the centerline extended. The camera eye is a bit back from yours I think and really shows up the dot moving inches left and right of the centerline with any aileron movement once you have captured centerline extended. Walk the rudders finely now. By dynamic proactive continuous rudder movement and no aileron movement, the dot will stay on the centerline. The tail will wag a bit but the dot will be almost frozen on the centerline. Get really stabilized on short final and have both you and the student remove hands from the yoke. Use rudder only to bracket the centerline finely. Keep the dot exactly on the centerline. Even with the light gusts you had, you would have hit my thumb jammed under on side of the yoke or stick. Ailerons and with them adverse yaw is the absolute major disturbance to longitudinal alignment. Coordination is working with the gross changes to correct. When far from centerline extended we need to turn to correct. Once on centerline we need only rudder to bracket and thereby nail the centerline from there on in regardless of crosswind (side slip approach) or gusts (rudder brings the wing back up without over controlling) crab (butt to centerline with wings level can be nailed only with rudder and no aileron.) You are on the right track with your ten tips except for dynamic proactive rudder. While necessary to keep tailwheel from ground loop, nose gear will correct once it comes down. That, however, is where the squeak and black marks come from. In that C-130 you have the centerline between your legs (the nose would have you in a 45 degree crab) and you can differential the throttles a bit I guess. You also have a big rudder. Anyway, this one is major in my experience. I can't help much with the stabilized approach as I was always no more than 200' up.

hey capt, where exactly did you buy that mockoup for the cessna? thank you for your videos!! they help me so much

I did have a bad landing on my first solo back after being sick lol I bounced 5 times safely stopped it and thought maybe I broke the plane and just requested to exit of the runway 😭I’ve always had safe to butter smooth landings so that kinda spooked me but I swear my approach was perfect I just didn’t flare enough and so I landed flat and the oscillation of the plane went on and on and on

Thank you, my CFI is great but I still benefit from people such as yourself.

I’m 11 years old and the tips you gave are very helpful

If only I had this video when I started! My first instruction was the ancient computer simulator with Ron Machado! Great teacher but these are the actual issues from the cockpit.

Apart from superb content, how effective is the headset ear sealing of your David Clark? There might be some difference in the ANC function of different manufactureres. But wearing glasses and a basecap myself I think it all starts with good ear sealing under real conditions, i.e. with glasses and basecap on.

Good video, you need to practice keeping your nose wheel off longer, 3 point landings are easy to cause purposing and prop strikes.

Here in The Netherlands, the standard pattern altitude is 700 ft AGL. In that case, starting the descent abeam the numbers will be a bit too early. I usually start my descent after the downwind-to-base turn.

I recall when I was getting close my PPL flight test I was required to go up with the chief instructor, well when turning base I was asked to land with no flaps, I felt I was way too high for no flaps...I decided to fix the too much height problem...turning final I stood on the top rudder pedal....it was smooth and perfect from my point of view...but Mr chief flight instructor chided me saying "that's a advanced maneuver, you are a student pilot...that's not a appropriate! "

Hey, just wanted to ask how to dond centerline on grass threshold, where often you do not have lines etc.? Many VFR airstrips does not have concrete/asphalt, just grass especially in europe.

Any suggestions on setting up an Aim point in a flight simulator

300 feet by base turn is what one instructed told me. If you’re still at pattern altitude by base id probably put in full flaps and slip in.

Question, I'm about to start my PPL. Do you recommend using a flight simulator, like Microsoft 2020? As opposed to chair flying?

Awesome video, again, thank you so much! Teacher Josh, if I have a stable approach, but get crosswind, when do I start to align the nose with the centerline with the rudder pedals? Just right before the touchdown or a lot earlier? I tried many things in the sim, but still not sure about this one. Is there a kind of "best spot" for this? Like 400 ft AGL or I don't know? And until then I just fly tilted? And I think, in the sim, it's somewhat harder to feel the real direction of the nose than in real life, just because of the lack of the real 3D environment (I'm not talking about VR now). Thank you for your answer in advance! :)

28:15 The airspeed doesn't deteriorate exponentially... however, I see how you could think that: the change in air speed is not equal to the force you experienced. Don't forget physics: deceleration will be approx. linear which means that your experienced force on your controls will decrease exponentially because it goes with the velocity of the air squared.

Where did you get that chair flight picture? My CFI is very big on telling me to chair fly; that picture would be helpful. Also - I didn’t quite get the flare part. Do I understand correctly to pitch, hold, and then flare once you start to sink?

Do you give check ride prep reviews?

When you roll in and roll out to get back on centreline are you using rudder for this? Or just ailerons?