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Title: Landings.... Post by: Meagan on August 05, 2008, 08:54:12 PM Hello, my name is Meagan. I'm a private pilot student at Utah State University. I'm training in a Diamond Star DA40 FP. I am having some difficulty with my short and soft field takeoff's and landing's. Does anyone have any tricks of the trade? Any info will be appreciated.
Thanks Title: Re: Landings.... Post by: Mike on August 06, 2008, 11:05:26 AM Hi Meagan. Welcome to the group. That Diamond is a real nice plane! I got to fly one with a friend recently although I am training in a Skyhawk.
I was having A LOT of trouble with soft field and short field landings. One thing I finally realized is that I was waiting too late to get slow enough. Also I was somewhat afraid of being too low on final for the soft field landing. Both of these things were causing me to come in too high and/or too fast. So I started getting slower earlier, on downwind and when starting base. That made a big difference. And for soft field landings I started coming in a little lower then I was used to seeing. That helped too. But what steps actually helped me to get used to flyer slower, and coming in lower? Slow flight, and power off descents. |