Pilots! Want PERFECT landings? Try this to get better landings every time you fly. 

The one point in my windscreen that never moves is typically a bug.

My instructor has been teaching for 50 years and never had a student fail a checkride. When you get into the flare he says, "Okay, now don't land. Don't land, don't land" until you grease it on. Great technique. You shouldn't be thinking about landing, you should be thinking about not landing. Cool to see you taking that approach as well, it works!

I still watch these vids as a CFII... and I hope my students are watching these when they’re on their own!

The big thing for me was speed (in a 172). I already had a rotor private cert and did a fixed-wing add-on with a CFII who takes guys to type ratings in CJ2-3s so he had been around. He had me coming over the fence at 75 knots and I kept bouncing landings. Pretty much starting to fly again. I finally realized he had created a lot of frustration by working me for hours of rental and CFI fees and after an in-cockpit altercation told him I would never get in an airplane with him again. Switched to another school and got an instructor who was almost 80 years old. He had gotten his CFII the year before I was born - and I'm old! We go out for the first time and on our first approach I asked about speed and if we should be over the fence at 75 knots. He says "oh no, that is way to fast. 65 maybe 70 knots or you will have too much energy and bounce the landing." He was absolutely correct and I greased that first landing with CFII number 2 and never looked back. Wasted a LOT of time with that first instructor.

I still remember the landing I had to perform for my private pilot check ride. The examiner had me flying above the runway a good 2-3000' AGL. As we passed the mid-point, he said, "Put the aircraft in a slip and land it." Yoke hard left, rudder hard right and down we went. About 100 feet or so above the runway I kicked out of it, pulled back on the yoke to get the nose up and stuck the landing. It helped that the runway was a 13,000 footer formerly used by B-52s at a SAC base that the Air Force closed the year before and turned over to the city. Thinking back on it, that's about the only thing I remember from that flight. So much for all the touch and gos I shot preparing for the exam. I have to admit that I had a great instructor. I'd ask him one of those "What if" questions, and he say, "I don't know, let's go find out." And we did.

I give you the best tip ever... never get cocky behind a joystick. This guy has some good tips I admit.

I'm a fairly new pilot, about 160 hours. I have trained with I think 7 CFIs, all of them quite good. But this is the best breakdown and explanation of landings I have heard. I will definitely be putting this advice to work next time I go out. Thank you for making these videos.

I have been watching everything on flying trying to learn as much as I can before I take classes. This is by far the most informative video on U Tube on landings. Thank You.

This is the best breakdown of landings. Huge thanks to you Jason

This is by far the most useful channel I have found on youtube so far. Keep up the great work. Consider me subscribed

I'm a private pilot from Argentina and I find all your videos so interesting and useful. Thanks for the information you share! Especially in these particularly quiet days.

This is an excellent video. Never really gave this much thought as exactly when to when to round out. This is good stuff for pilots of any skill level. Thanks!

I always had this problem with when to roundout, and thanks to your video my landings have improved a lot.

Hey Jason!! Just took my family recently to our first flight. Had a very respectful amount of crosswind, but thanks to your excellent videos, the landing was smooth as could be for my precious cargo, and they got off the plane begging for the next flight. Thanks so much for the videos you put out, greatly appreciated!

Great advice! It was guys like you who set the foundation for my career. I'm now a retired Delta captain muckety-muck but I enjoyed your video. I had a leg up when I entered USAF pilot training owing to my GA experience. I liked that you mentioned the lack of flare in a large transport- you shoot for a round out with very little vertical speed and land or else risk a tail strike. Aimpoint and centerline discipline is also a big deal with high performance airplanes. Keep up the good work!

This video is epic. Super helpful. Thank you!

This video helped me so much... I have about 40+ hours in a Grumman Traveler but have now started transitioning to a C172 due to the Grumman being involved in a hard landing due to an emergency... I had my first flight in a Cessna this afternoon and I used your pointers from the Jacobson flare and i was shocked with how my landings were right away... with your help and my CFI this transition is going to be a breeze... Thank you for all your amazing content 🤟🙌

Thank you for this great video! I was just doing the low passes/landings yesterday and my instructor also say pull back pull back don’t land it don’t land it and then we land :) really enjoying your videos they are great re-enforcement of my CFIs instructions and additional learning!! Blessings

This video should be mandatory viewing for every student pilot. Nicely done sir.

Great tip on when to begin the round-out. I never heard that before. My instructor taught me to keep the decent until you feel like something must be done about it. At first I had a tendency to round out too high and that just makes for way too much to that has to be done in a hurry to correct. That's for the videos.

I really appreciated this video lesson and your use of visual aids and video to complement your audio/lecture. I like the idea of breaking the landing down into 5 phases. Will try this next time (and every time).

Great videos...really helping me progress faster and helping me direct my training with my CFI with your skill building exercises (like the one with the side slip practice) - far and away the best flight training videos I've seen

What a new video!! Never been so eager to learn!

Thanks "The Finer Point" I have been practicing my landing on a regular flight simulation at a school. Its really good. I was wondering what that sound was because I seen it done with a student and a C.F.I. I wanted to try it too. He said the same thing you said about this is the correct way to land a plane. I have been going to simulated for 2 months and it has helped me a lot in my flight training. I do a month subscription for $299.00 per month anytime I want to go. I do 5 hours a flying a week. Always the best!! thank you

Thankyou Jason. This will surely help when I begin training !

Great reminders/tips we can ALL use and be cognizant of again....

this was so helpful in understanding what to be looking for and when

This is a very good training, exactly the help I need. Thank You!!!!!

Jason I am recommending your video to as many people as I can. My CFI proposed your exercise (first out of 8 CFIs in my XP) and man it was an eye opener truly. Please CFIs include it in your curricula for the sake of your students (and airplanes haha)

Thanks for the tips and tricks, they are appriciated!

I am a CFI from nor cal, found your channel today and have been binge watching- great content !

Great points. Need this for FS2020 for now... Real plane when I can afford.

you are making my flight sim training much easier thank you :D

Great video! Thank you for the tips!

Big Thanks, this is so helpful!

Excellent illustration and lesson... This was one of the things that my instructor drilled into my head... first and foremost, establish a stable approach. Be on your airspeed on final and locate that aiming point. Then "fly" the airplane to that aiming point and, like you said, once it goes under you, reduce power and begin the flare and let the airspeed bleed off. The stall horn should come on just before touchdown. In our Tiger, airspeed is 80 on one mile final with 30 degrees flap (that's our minimum maneuvering speed), 75 on short final with full flap, 70 across the fence and 65 when the wheels touch down. Of course, things change a bit when you're landing in gusty conditions and crosswinds, but that's for another lesson, eh?. Again, nice job.

Jason,....Excellent video!!! Learned to fly in an L2 Taylorcraft, (tail-dragger, no flaps). Biggest thing I took from that was learning to operate in the “nose-up” environment. With no flaps to employ, dissipating all of the lift was a real challenge....I also learned, during my training, that, “If you can do it, I can do it”!!! Just show me how....Best feeling in the world was being over the numbers, just high enough and just fast enough to “nail” the landing....Like I said, excellent video....Glad I subscribed.....

Thanks for the video, all these little points definitely help!

this is a great episode, Jason.

Hey, I am so new at all this with aviation but I have seen many videos and I even a Private Pilot Video Course and I can tell you my friend that you are a really good instructor, I am from the Dominican Republic and if I had the chance to learn with you trust me on this, I know I would have been your best student, i can say all this by just watching a video where you show how passionate you re about this beautiful career, congratulations and keep up the good work my friend.

GREAT tip!!!.. absolutely spot on about the approach... if not stabilised and trying to ‘change’ things on short final... well.. you’re leaving it to dumb luck... makes a whole lot of sense to me!! 1000hr pilot, but learnt about the ‘holding back’ even after the main wheels touch down.. too often, I’m guilty of ‘letting go’ once I’ve touched down.. will practice this on my next landings for sure!!

Always great tips. God bless.

Sure could have used this a few years ago for my private training. It would have saved me about $2k in remedial training with a different instructor narrowing down why my landings were so inconsistent.

Thanks. I learned something new and that is to pick a spot on the runway to start pitching my nose up. I used to look between the fuselage and the wing to see my altitude.

Really interesting and very professional . Thanks from Ecuador.

Amazing! Thank you 😊

Great video! Ever since I botched a landing 30 years ago I've used the "bug" technique.

Great video, thank you!

I'm a student pilot. This content is gold. Thank you!

Nice job Jason. My daughter is working on her multi and have been flying 91 for 15 years. We both love your videos. Thanks and keep them coming.

Took my first lesson yesterday. Looking forward to applying these tips. Thanks!

Very informative. Thanks.

Thanku very helpful video ! My CFI suggested I watch your videos !

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Hey man. Im a new flight instructor just starting my career and I can't tell you how much I appreciate your videos. The way you explain complex things in simple statements is truly awesome. Thank you so much for the videos!

Great info, Jason! Thanks.

I've been trying to get back into flying and would really really like to spend a week or so with you. :)

Nice video. I especially like your tip about flying the plane all the way to the tie downs. That’s something I really learned in my taildragger training. Because there it is absolutely necessary to avoid spinnt the plane on the ground.

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1:48 - I figured that out half way through my INSTRUMENT training and finally started nailing landings. I'm probably the only guy ever who got BETTER at landing during instrument training :)

Great points, thank you..

super helpful! Hopefully, I can finally perfect those landings and not balloon after watching this- such a struggle right now in this learning process.

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I love your content sir , great work🎉

I feel as though I go through those same 5 points every time I try to kiss my wife

Jason, just by the way you break the process of landing into its 5 sub-components, I know I'm speaking to an expert. A similar situation occurs in the world of shooting, where to be a good shot, you need to know and apply the 4 marksmanship principles. Jason, therefore, has to be one of the best. I love his use of a model plane to support his explanation. Really professional!

Thank you soooooooo much❤

Great video I fly in sim world and have mastered it there. Nice video

Helping us understand what it takes to land well.

Probably the best video on landings. I like that you don't trip up on the word "flare" and still use "transition" to adjust your viewpoint. Jason, you are a one-of-a-kind CFI. You must really love flying, bc you are able to explain so much... in just a few words. Thank you!

5:25 heyyy san carlos airport!! thats where im training!! thanks for the tips too

Great video, I'm having issues with landing right now. Just having a problem with understanding my distance from the tire to ground. Slap & bounce is what is in my log book 😧

Good video and excellent instruction. I’m going to subscribe to your channel try to relearn some technique. I haven’t flown for years due to illness, but I now have a simulator and can at least go thru the motions. Thanks 😊

Awesome

excellent pointers thanks

Hey thanks for this great video as usual! One comment of yours in the beginning really connected in my mind. You mentioned that you normally do power off approaches. It would be really awesome if you could share a video where you explain what your approach is to this. Do you always fly overhead the airfield at ~2000' AGL and communicate that you are doing a precision landing exercise? Or do you fly a normal traffic pattern and kind of "gauge" at which point you will "lose" power? I too would like to get into the habit of mostly performing power off approaches, as this will be great training for that time when it will not be an option. Thank you so much!

Thank you so much for this video, i'm studying my PPL right now and it helped me a lot!

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I appreciate your video and the "phase" thing makes sense. I am curious how you describe the round out point vs the aim point when landing on an unmarked runway such as grass, dirt or gravel.

YES

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Excellent content as always! Question: why do the power off approach? Wouldn’t that mean you need to be high with steeper glide path? Thank you!

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Nice video… Thank you! The nose wheel of the 777 has to be carefully lowered onto the runway....With such a high nose to wheel height, in addition to how far off the ground the nose wheel is above the runway during the flare takes getting used to...it’s easier said than done. I miss the days when you could patiently wait for the nose wheel to come down when the aircraft lost elevator authority. I instructed for a long time so it’s great to come back and re-familiarize myself with some of this stuff. Landing technique doesn’t really change much no matter what you’re flying and I think your method of teaching the landing is spot on… In addition, using terminology like “go around” is the same as what the airlines use, so you’re getting the student off on the right foot from day one. Also worth mentioning is your emphasis of the “stabilized approach”. As all of the airlines work towards improving safety, this single item has revealed itself to be one of the most important and heavily emphasized in the industry today.

This is awesome! Just a quick question. In regards to the round out phase do you start to bring the nose of the aircraft up when the stripe before your aiming point disappears below the cowling or the stripe after disappears below the cowling? Thanks for the info!

Man I sure hope your my instructor someday!!

At 5:29 I was watching this randomly and wasn't paying much attention to the terrain but holy shit this was at San Carlos. I was pretty shocked as soon as I recognized the apron and museum in the back.

These are just excellent videos! I just wanted to add one tip that could help some students struggling with those last few seconds of the landing. Try to not worry so much about executing a "flare" and think of it as more of just holding the low and level flight path you have after you roundout. The plane will naturally flare a bit on its own if you hold that and just let it settle onto the runway. I had total frustration with landings until I stopped thinking "flare" and started thinking of just holding it level. Give it a shot!

I cannot remember exactly what my instructor taught me on landing. This was 45 years ago. My first solo was 12 hours and licensed at 52 hrs. and on the topic of landing I know I can't remember making a wrong turn at Albuquerque, so to speak. I do recall a spot on the windshield for approach. But, it does make a lot of sense, to fly it down. Fly by the seat of your pants. I also recall the threshold as a target to set-up the touch down. Over the runway, flying the bleeding landing speed and a control drop...the tire-tread gain is up to have less wear. This of course was taught for the flight-training business own gain of course and anyone who is a preserver and not an a abuser would want to comply simply because you were conditioned by previous good teachers to make things last longer. Whatever I was told it worked fine for all my landings. But, I have to admit that being a heavy equipment operator was an climbing asset. Once your off the ground...eventually; it is show time. And, for everyone who has soloed you would have that intrepid-scare. What was I thinking. That only lasts for a few seconds once you are in the air and in full control of even the controller who cleared you for take-off. You are free as a bird but that rush is crushed because if you don't comply your grounded for many years. For all those who fly for pleasure and for all those who fly for business...have a pleasant flight. and remeber...the centre line is there for a reason.

Hey Jason, thanks for the tips! I have 2 questions: 1. you said, that you are trying to get idle approach. But isn't it a bit risky in a rough air? 2. and another question - how do you calculate where the groundout point is? or is it always a 100 feet? And how do you change it depending on air?

I am a pretty new student pilot and i've been having alot of issues with the landing and this helped alot in understanding the steps and I think it will help me get my landings done and finally solo, thank you!

Nice content as always, but how to pick an aiming point when landing on grass runway?

I remember my CFI: "Don't let it land... don't let it land... don't let it land," before the touchdown.

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Definitely with you on all these tips. Really feel ya with the “small battles” with students. Landings are really built on several different components and steps, and it’s a slow process of refining and honing those skills. When my students are looking down the runway, I have them “freeze the sight picture”. If the sight picture drops, they’re ballooning. If it rises, they’re dropping. This helps them understand what the sight picture should look like and how much back pressure to feed in. Good tips on the when to look down the runway. I have a lot of students ask when they should transfer their gaze to the end of the runway. I phrase it as “walk your eyes towards the end of the runway once you can pull the power and make your aiming point”, but I’ll start to incorporate your tips. Good stuff man. This stuff is great for all pilots - Students-CFIs. Thanks for putting this stuff out.

its fun how we are all pilots or future pilots here

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Great stuff! I had my 172 landings nailed, and then I threw two people in the back seat and it changed how the plane responded on the roundout, not my greatest landing. I suggested to my CFI fly the airplane with seats full with a student before the checkride or they take their first pax up to let them account for the difference.

It's odd, both of my instructors said the opposite: "let it land". Basically, hold your attitude, nose up, and the plane will land when it's ready, don't force it. I had never heard "don't let it land", but I can see what you meant by it. Anyway, these little tip videos are great. I've made them part of my prep for next week's flight review.

Divide leaning into 5 parts: 1. Approach- maintain constant speed and rateo of descent. Identify aiming point( the point at which everything appears to emminate from). 2. The round out: round out when some point 100 ft in front of aiming point disappears below cowling. 3. Flair: tease energy out of wings by stalling at when just above the ground with a slight increase in angle of attack. 4. Touch down: Keep the longitudinal axis of your airplane ( nose to tail ) aligned with the center line of the runway. Even if you stall the plane a foot or two above the run way the plane will be just fine if you are aligned with the center line and above because the spring steels can handle it. 5. The rollout: fly the plane all the way to the tie downs. Allow the kinetic energy of the plane to dissipate on its own by holding light back pressure on the elevator so the nose softly touches down. Respond to ATC when clear of the runway and at a full stop.