Most Common Landing Mistakes | How to Fix a Bounced Landing | How to Land an Airplane 

Your videos are the gold standard in aviation education. Keep up the great work, Dan!

I had a bounced landing a few weeks ago. Added power, leveled out, and landed with plenty of runway to spare. Joked with the tower I was logging all three of my landings.

Momentarily peek out the lower left corner of the windshield and the pilot door window and you will actually be able to gauge your height above the pavement. In a tail wheel airplane such as a Stinson, you can’t see over the nose when the plane is on the ground. So we look out at the leading edge of the wing to gauge pavement height. Use two fingers on the yolk and don’t do a death grip. You will “feel the plane” and the movements will be smooth.

I really appreciate, not just the lessons, but the effort in the video production. A+ 👌

My favorite is hearing the tiniest little buzz from the stall horn immediately before touching down

Short and well informative. Nice!

You explain things so clearly - I'm only simming but hope I can now address the bounces that tend to plague me. Thank you.

Thanks for posting such great videos along with easy to understand explanations.

Thanks for video. I’m about 12 hours into flying and was struggling with this. Usually carrying too much speed with full flaps and then bouncing or ballooning or combined! Then my instructor had me approach with zero flaps. What a difference. I got a better understanding while floating a few feet off runway of the finesse needed and getting your speed set well in advance.

excellent video. Thankfully I have my ppl but am suffering in IFR hell at the moment - still with patience and work it will come !

great video, thanks for the effort put into it

Very good video! Thanks for the great work!

Its been months now trying to improve my landings in flight sim. Learnt different concepts, none worked out as the best. Watched this video at work and tried as soon as I got back home. Landed C152 very near to stall speed, 0 bouces and -28 FPM (Don't really know much about this atm), no ballooning and impact 1.01G. Only thing to work now is side slip. (I used Gees - In game landing analysis) Thanks! 🌟

Best landing video I have seen so far. This is what I am doing while learning to land these days. Rounding out too early but couldn't understand why the outcome is so terrible and why my instructor immediately pushes the throttle all the way for a go around. This video explains it perfectly. Thank you!

Perrrfect video narration is perfect, animation is perfect. Thank you so much

great video. Thank you.

Great video again. Paul Bertarelli from AOPA talks about how long runways and huge pattern sizes from tower controlled fields cause many pilots to develop a “take as much time as you need” habit of landing. All good for safety, but it does kill off good skills. My instructor would challenge me to exit a runway by a certain taxiway without excessive braking to teach how to land on the numbers - smoothly - rather than drift down part the fixed distance markers, after I got good at landing smoothly.

This guy is amazing... since I came across one of your vids my landing are as smooth as a baby skin ❤😁😁

I've often wondered why I bounce in the sim sometimes, but totally butter in others. This helps immensely.

My second solo I bounced like hell..I came in to fast, realized what I had done a bit too late to correct the speed for a smooth landing. It felt like it’d never stop bouncing and by this time I was in panic mode, I should have done a go around but I was scared to death and drew a blank mentally, it was the first time I had a sketchy situation without my instructor with me. Learned a good lesson and gained a bit of confidence, it wasn’t the worst case scenario( well it is for a student pilot, in the moment😂)but I was able to keep control of the plane enough to land safe enough. I’ll make double sure I never do that shit again, praise the Lord I turned out okay.

Added to favourites

A thing that helped me don't know if it will work for other people is to just apply a steady light pressure back on the yoke instead of actually moving it.

Informative!

My instructor helped me practice the transition to stall at altitude. High above the ground, configure for landing and hold the yoke to keep the same heading and see that VSI dip at an inch per year.

Too many GA pilots carry excess energy in the approach-result-multiple bounces. Related to this, few take into consideration a reduced landing speed (Vref) due to reduced aircraft weight. Commonly POHs only cite a single approach speed and this is for max weight. Vref could be a good 10 kts less with a single pilot in a Cessna 172-your CFI likely won’t know that.

You're not alone. We've all done things like that, and in some cases, worse. Just learn from it and keep on flying.

I just made both those mistakes on a solo cross country I did yesterday for my instrument rating! Landing 1: forgot to flare. I landed very slightly nose first, bounced and porpoised. Landing 2: flared a little too high, almost smacked down on the runway! Landing 3 back home was flawless of course. 😏 I feel like the video coming out today isn't a coincidence...

Wow, W00 footage! I passed my private checkride in 2012 in N6155K.

This is the solution of all my problems

Love this video - I’m still working on my PPL and struggled with bounced landings for a good minute. The concept of power management really changed things for me and this is a great video explaining that relationship since I didn’t really understand why I was bouncing. The feeling of the ground ‘rushing’ up to meet me is so true and very different. My instructor flew several approaches with me shadowing the controls just so I could get a proper sight picture.. this really helped get control of power management without looking so much at the G1000 - at least for me. Now working on cross wind landings ha ha

Don't "flare." Level out inside of ground effect and leave it there. Let the plane slow itself down.

Now trying to flare along while putting in cross wind correction - side slip and keeping straight and centered.

Lots of nose up trim helps as well. It’s all about energy management!

Good ol' Freeway Airport!

My instructor lost his dentures on my landings.

Tell precisly & in details scenarios on the causes of bouncing + demonstrate how to land a plane smoothly without it. Thank you!

bouncy landings are so much fun..

If I was to sit a pair of scales. On one side (a slow landing stops bounce and shortest stopping of the plane). Fast landing, quicker TOGA if required? 🌏🇦🇺

Brilliantly explained. Does this also apply to commercial jets?

The fact you do this all in flight sim 2020 amazes me. Awesome!

I tell students an airplane bounces because it can. Meaning it's still flying because we touched down in a condition(s) still able to support flight.

Porpoise landing?

The reason you have bounced landings is because cessnas have absolutely NO shock absorbers. The wheels bounce off the runway like a basketball 🏀🏀🏀.

I like planes

Not just good information for real world pilots, but great info for us flight simming wannabe pilots !!!

First

Radials is way harder than landing

Actually this is one of the best examples One thing you forgot to say to add a bit out power to adjust your sink rate if it’s to much On your flare