Tarheel Pilot
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As I've stated in the Flight Following section of the forum, I've been busy getting checked out in the Czech Sportcruiser, which is a fun aircraft to fly. However, I have had a small problem of landing the aircraft.
The flight school like to do a no flap landing because from their reasoning, it's an LSA and flaps would just cause it to get toss around in the wind. Which I'm okay with, it's their aircraft, their rules.
However, I can't really get over the idea that you don't flare the Sportcruiser the same way you'd do in the Piper Cherokees (what I've been flying previously).
What they've been teaching me is to hold the aircraft off the ground and let it come down on it's own and to hold the stick in an almost neutral position, yet my mind keeps telling me to pull the stick back for the flare.
All of this is done with a 75 knots approach speed, and with no flaps, which does cause ballooning which does cause me to want to push the stick forward a bit to get out of the balloon, apparently I'm supposed to keep the stick near to neutral and let the aircraft fly out of that as well.
So...it's def. a new way for me to land an aircraft, and since we have a few LSA flyers on here, I was wondering if y'all could give me some pointers for better and more consistent landing in a Sportcruiser?
The flight school like to do a no flap landing because from their reasoning, it's an LSA and flaps would just cause it to get toss around in the wind. Which I'm okay with, it's their aircraft, their rules.
However, I can't really get over the idea that you don't flare the Sportcruiser the same way you'd do in the Piper Cherokees (what I've been flying previously).
What they've been teaching me is to hold the aircraft off the ground and let it come down on it's own and to hold the stick in an almost neutral position, yet my mind keeps telling me to pull the stick back for the flare.
All of this is done with a 75 knots approach speed, and with no flaps, which does cause ballooning which does cause me to want to push the stick forward a bit to get out of the balloon, apparently I'm supposed to keep the stick near to neutral and let the aircraft fly out of that as well.
So...it's def. a new way for me to land an aircraft, and since we have a few LSA flyers on here, I was wondering if y'all could give me some pointers for better and more consistent landing in a Sportcruiser?