Flight 14: PAO-PAO
9.30am Sunday 5/3 (1.1 hours) – 824LB – Winds 4kts – Skattered clouds at 1500′ – Visibility 6 SM – 14°C
Landing pattern practice. The landing flare is still giving me a bit of problems. Gradually figuring out the right rudder and aileron inputs for the round-out but suffering from pilot-induced oscillations. I need to:
- Apply left rudder in the round out to counteract the right-turning tendency due to p-factor
- Apply ailerons to stop any lateral drift
- Stop jiggling the yoke and let the airplane settle if it oscillates
- Flare to level and wait for the plane to settle before flaring smoothly up to landing attitude