Recent content by Mike4Foxtrot

This was really helpful, thank you. Something I learned is that I shouldn't have given landing instruction in a plane of which I have limited experience in, and no training in. In this case, I think keeping pressure on the lever to retract the flaps sustained the sinking momentum. This was the...

Thank you for all the comments and input everyone. I appreciate both the "nicer" replies and the constructive criticism. I agree that an element to being a better teacher is adaptability and changing things up. I haven't had as much experience with landing practice yet. In fact, this was my 4th...

When I said full flaps, I meant 30 flaps as most of the planes I fly only extend to 30. Sorry for the confusion. I never would land the 150 with 40 and generally wouldn’t with the 172 either.

He flew around 10 hours solo several years back, and was beginning lessons again.

I am a new CFI, and still learning a lot. I was always trained to retract flaps incrementally -- from 30d to 20d, and once airspeed is built, and you establish a positive rate of climb, continue to retract from there.

I don't think it was wake turbulence. It all happened very fast, especially once control was lost and I realized I wasn't generating lift, but what I believe happened and what the FAA inspector hypothesized from the scene is that we hit the wing on the RW marker (which was damaged), crashed nose...

Thanks for the feedback. I have spoken to two different commercial pilots about the situation to get their take on it, as well as the FAA inspector and my chief pilot. I should ask for input on here as well about thoughts on the recovery. The biggest feed back I got was from one of the...

Right before what I anticipated to be a nose gear touch down, I abruptly added back pressure which caused a high bounce from the touchdown. I made the immediate decision to execute a go-around. On the attempted go-around, full power was added and I dropped the nose to just above the horizon line...

I was recently involved in a substantial accident, with no injuries. I'm a CFI and essentially what happened is that my student had a bad flare which resulted in a hard landing. I took controls to do an immediate go around from the bounce. I did what I perceived to be the standard procedures...