PA.IV.J.S7
SkillMake smooth, timely, and correct power and control adjustments to maintain proper pitch attitude and rate of descent to touchdown.
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- LANDING › GLASSY WATER LANDING
Another technique is to make the final approach over land, crossing the shoreline at the lowest possible safe altitude so that a reliable height reference is maintained to within a few feet of the water surface. When adequate visual references ... available, make glassy water landings by establishing a stable descent in the landing attitude at a rate that will provide a positive, but not excessive, contact with the water. Recognize the need for this type of landing in ample time…
- Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Short-Field Approach and Landing
After the landing gear has been extended, if applicable, or when beginning a suitable final approach, the pilot simultaneously adjusts the power and the pitch attitude to establish and maintain the proper descent angle and airspeed. During a stabilized approach ... small changes in the airplane’s pitch attitude and power setting are needed when making corrections to the angle of descent and airspeed. The short-field approach and landing is an accuracy approach to an aiming point. The procedures previously…
- Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Normal Approach and Landing › Final Approach
should use the manufacturer's recommended airspeed or 1.3 VSO if there is no manufacturer's recommendation. As the pitch attitude and airspeed stabilize, the airplane is re-trimmed to relieve any control pressure. The descent angle is controlled throughout ... approach so that the airplane lands in the center of the first third of the runway. The descent angle is affected by all four fundamental forces that act on an airplane (lift, drag, thrust, and weight). If all the forces…
- LANDING › NORMAL LANDING
NORMAL LANDING Make normal landings directly into the wind. Seaplanes can be landed either power-off or power-on, but power-on landings are generally preferred because they give the pilot more positive control of the rate of sink ... touchdown spot. To touch down at the slowest possible speed, extend the flaps fully. Use flaps, throttle, and pitch to control the glidepath and establish a stabilized approach at the recommended approach airspeed. The techniques for glidepath control are similar…
- Chapter 9: Approaches and Landings › Turbulent Air Approach and Landing
final approach. 3. Inadequate compensation for wind drift on final approach. 4. Unstable approach. 5. Excessive sink rate or too low an airspeed from increased drag and reduced vertical lift during sideslip. 6. Failure to touch down with the longitudinal ... axis aligned with the runway. 7. Touching down while drifting. 8. Excessive airspeed on touchdown. 9. Failure to apply appropriate flight control inputs during rollout. 10. Failure to maintain direction control on rollout. 11. Excessive braking. 12. Loss of aircraft…
- Chapter 5: Maintaining Aircraft Control: Upset Prevention and Recovery Training › Stalls › Full Stalls, Power-Off
Full Stalls, Power-Off The practice of power-off stalls is usually performed with normal landing approach conditions to simulate an accidental stall occurring during approach to landing. However, power-off stalls should be practiced at all flap settings ... approach speed should not be carried into a stall entry since it could result in an abnormally nose-high attitude. To set up the entry for a straight-ahead power-off stall, airplanes equipped with flaps or retractable landing gear…