Good luck on your checkride! Perhaps you can go up with another insructor. Fresh set of eyes doesn't hurt
I would also suggest aiming at a point before your touchdown point. For example, if your aiming point is the numbers aim for the very beginning of the runway.
Good luck!
Well how did it go??
Sorry for bringing this up, but I have always used 1.3 Vs0... Not that it's a big deal, especially at the speeds we are talking here. I just always thought everything was predicated on 1.3 Vs0.Good landings are slow landings. Get comfortable at the low-speed end of the airspeed indicator. Calculate 1.2 Vso and be at that speed coming over the fence. You cannot afford to be fast.
A trick I used back in the day (if the terrain approaching the threshold had no obstructions) was to make my aiming point 50-100 feet short of the threshold. Inertia in the flare would take me over the runway surface.
Bob Gardner
Sorry for bringing this up, but I have always used 1.3 Vs0... Not that it's a big deal, especially at the speeds we are talking here. I just always thought everything was predicated on 1.3 Vs0.
1.3 should be your standard approach speed. 1.2 on a short field will help you nail that landing spot.
My ride was Tuesday and I passed. Honestly it was one of the most fulfilling experiences of my life.
I would HIGHLY recommend the DPE, Randy Haralson, to anyone in the GA, SC, NC, TN vicinity. He could not have been more fair or easier to deal with. In general, a great guy.