How to Use an AIMPOINT | Cessna 172 

I love seeing you use a spotter while making these videos! Safe practices are more effective when being demonstrated.

Thank you! That was a very nice review for me... I need to learn the slip maneuver.

Best training evervcompared to all that I have used!

I'm only a PPL with commercial and instruction aspirations. Totally going to try this out.

Finally makes since to me. Thanx.

Thanks for this. I have watched do many aviation videos and lately wondered on how one judge where to land. This is the first video I have seen explaining this.

Great tips Josh, thank you. Keep up the great work. Safe skies 🇺🇸🛩️

Pro tip: the fist above the dash works out cause that's on average by how much your eyes are above the dash. But you can be more precise if you put the sticker precisely as much above the dash as your eyes are above it. This is more important for short and taller people. Ask me how I know 😅

As usual, great tips

Great presentation. Thanks

Thank you Josh for another great video! I totally followed you re: the ref point needing to be lower with the flaps up...since the flaps are adding lift - almost like adding higher angle attack - with them up, you have to create you own higher AOA and the sight picture drops down to the cowling, right? I hope to start my PP training soon here in Cleveland. Thanks again! Paul

This is an amazing tip 💯

Thanks a lot

Nicely done. Try using rudder only to bracket the centerline on final. A little dynamic proactive dance is fine, a TW technique but works with nose wheel as well. If we hold the target exactly, the aim point in your lesson, laterally with rudder only the wing is automatically kept level. Rudder is the gust buster. Since we don't want to turn, and we especially don't want to deal with adverse yaw on final, use the anti-turn control...the rudder. Mounted on the longitudinal axis, it provides true yaw rather than confusing adverse yaw. Not that aileron is causing you a lot of problem as you are pretty coordinated. It causes students problems such that they will get a wing wagging going that confuses them. The nose is going the wrong way before it comes back the right way to get back on target and bring the wing up. On final, I jam my thumb under one side of the yoke. When they try to bring a wing back up with aileron, they bump against my thumb and look over. I say, "Walk the rudder. Leave the aileron alone." Another technique is to take the yoke and have them use rudder only to stay aligned. Also, bracketing the centerline or aim point with rudder will find the slight crosswind you were working with. Slight crosswind is much more confusing than is strong crosswind. In a strong crosswind, they will get the bank angle set. In slight crosswind they seldom will unless we make them hold the centerline or aim point with rudder first. Then drift will show up. Good to see Claremore again. I used to patrol Explorer Pipeline from Chicago to Houston on the west side of my loop.

Thanks!

Btw well done with the filming, that view front from cockpit camera position is perfect. 👌

Very good instructer

Good work 👍

Thanks

Another great video! What do you use for recording your audio?

That was fun

thanks that was a very nice video, very helpful .but i have a request can yo do a video of how to maintain center line after take off and before landing please🥺

Nice video

Great videos! I’ve been having to change airplanes getting my ppl and some of the seats don’t adjust. What video talks about seat height? Thank you!

nice

What is the purpose of the Runway Aiming Point Marking? And do general aviation pilots use them?

7:12, do you pitch the nose up, or down when pitching for airspeed?

Could you re-upload when youre on centerline from final? I get the point youre making, but as a visual learning aid, its kind of bad because of how far right you are to the CL.

I'll try this in my big tv using microsoft flight simulator. Kinda difficult to get to 3degress angle when trying to land

How much for these free pilot lessons? 🙃 Seriously though, thank you for posting such great tips!

My landings have been horrible it’s hard for me to keep a reference point and I end up landing left or right of center. I can land the plane but I have a difficult time flaring at the end and slam down. Other than that I solo today and I’m kinda nervous

"The way I'm gonna get high is i'm actually gonna hit this J real quick" 🤣

Though you where going to land in that little lake for a second when you where on final.

The aiming isn't my problem, it's the connecting XD

How bout that, aim for the closest end of the runway. 🤠 👍

Aim point. Two words. I thought you had come up with an odd way to use an Aimpoint, a brand of reflex sight, for a jetfighter feel of a visually marked aiming point. 😂

Why would you need a gun optic on a cessna? lmfao. jk