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I have a Pre-Solo student who is Plateauing at landings. His common mistakes are landing left of centerline, getting squirrely on short final, and always side-loading it to the left.
I've tried telling him to use more right rudder then he thinks he needs. Which fixed the side-loading for a few landings. I've told him to land on the right side of the runway. Which fixed the centerline issue for a while. But each item keeps coming back after a few landings.
Today I took him to an airport in a tight valley to work on crosswind landings. Well that ended up being a horrible idea because of the strong down slope crosswind. I even had to fight the plane down on a few of the landings.
I've used a narrower runway to see if that would help. He said it helped and he did improve but the mistakes are still there.
He is approaching 25 hours and basically the only thing holding him back is landing. I feel like I'm letting him down somewhere and I can't figure out where.
I've tried telling him to use more right rudder then he thinks he needs. Which fixed the side-loading for a few landings. I've told him to land on the right side of the runway. Which fixed the centerline issue for a while. But each item keeps coming back after a few landings.
Today I took him to an airport in a tight valley to work on crosswind landings. Well that ended up being a horrible idea because of the strong down slope crosswind. I even had to fight the plane down on a few of the landings.
I've used a narrower runway to see if that would help. He said it helped and he did improve but the mistakes are still there.
He is approaching 25 hours and basically the only thing holding him back is landing. I feel like I'm letting him down somewhere and I can't figure out where.
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