Your approach looked good BTW. I'm not a CFI, but what it looked like to me was that you flew right to the RW heard the stall horn and flared. Try being a
little more patience and when you get over the RW hold the touchdown off until its ready to land.
BTW, I'm not saying there necessarily...
Thanks guys for all the replies. Slipping with flaps is
something that I want to be more comfortable with, so I think
that next time out I'll get a little altitude dump all the flaps and see how it feels.
I got my PPL in the early 90's while I was in my late 30's. Life happened and I didn't fly for
almost 18 years, but I'm back just passed my BFR (Bi-annual Fight Review) in my late 50's.
Mike you will never find a more helpful group of people on pilots. I think it's because. We all started in...
Here's the story I'm in a C-172 got a little distracted in the traffic pattern and found myself too high on final with 30° flaps. At this point I wanted to slip to lose altitude but was concerned about slipping with the 30° flaps and appropriate A/S. What I did was to approach at a steeper...
SCAirborne you're probably doing just find at this stage of training but you'll start to notice your confidences improving. So the only advice that I will give is this, your CFI is there to handle any situation that you might find yourself in, and having confidence in that you can afford to...