Landing

In General:

• 3 common landing errors - how to fix them.
• 3 tips for the perfect landing. (MzA vid)
• 5 common landing errors, and how to fix them.
• 5 reasons your landings aren't smooth.
• 5 tips for better night landings.
• 5 tips for MASSIVELY better landings (That Actually Work).
• 6 ways or 10 ways to perfect your landings.
• 8 different types of landings.
• 8 steps to make your first solo landing perfectly smooth.
• 10 tips for safer takeoffs and landings. (FAA).
• 52 years of teaching landings. (Rod Machado vid).
• Avoid hard landings (AOPA video).
• Bad landings and scary takeoffs (great Backcountry 182 video).
• Defeated by Da Feet (Machado video).
• Feel like your landings are getting worse?
• How to make smooth landings. (Backcounty182 vid).
• Landing - Fundamental Series (MzA) Entire Fundamental Series.
• On landing well: 9 steps for success. (Article)
• Pitch for airspeed, power for glideslope? Or the other way around?
• Takeoff and landing refresher. (Wally Moran).
• This ONE technique instantly improved my landings. (vid)
• Tips to get on the centerline. (Vid 46 and Vid 82).
• Trim: Should you trim during landing?
• See also Pilot Tips of the Week and Human Factors.

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Aimpoint:

• Aimpoint vs touchdown point. Vid 45 or Vid 225.

Airspeed:

• How to land smoothly: Mastering airspeed for touchdowns. (FI).
• Why landing too fast can lead to a wheelbarrowing accident.

Approach:

• See "Final" below.

ATC and Communication (separate page).

Bounces/Bouncing:

• How to prevent a bounced landing. (Vid 143 or Vid 218).
• Bounced landing, how to recover.
• What if I balloon or bounce on landing? (MzeroA vid).
• Why am I bouncing my landings? (Vid 13).

Braking:

• 4 braking tips for every landing.
• Contaminated runway? Here's how to know the braking conditions.
• If your brakes failed on landing rollout, would you perform a go-around?

Communication and ATC (separate page).

Controls / Control Inputs:

• Grip - is it causing bad landings? (Vid 88 or Vid 146).
• Should you trim during landing?

Crosswinds:

• 2 methods to defeat this curse. (AOPA).
• 3 common crosswind landing mistakes, and how to prevent them.
• 7 steps to make the perfect crosswind landing.
• Crosswind landing technique: Control inputs.
• Crosswind landing tips. (Vid 169).
• Crosswind landings (Sporty’s vid - shown from behind).
• Feeling crabby-mastering crosswind landings. (MzeroA vid).
• Flaps in a gusty cross? (AvWeb).
• Flaps, should you reduce them in a strong crosswind? (Vid 55 or Vid 142).
• Handling strong crosswinds. (Vid 26 or Vid 39).
• How maximum demonstrated crosswind is calculated.
• How much rudder and ailerons? "It depends" is vague. The amount is 1) to keep longitudinal axis aligned (rudder) and 2) to stay on centerline (aileron).
• How to make a perfect crosswind landing.
• Left crosswind - how to handle it. (Vid 198).
• Light crosswinds cause three landing accidents.
• Maintain directional control after crosswind landing - how to.
• Prep for private pilot exam. (vid).
• Tips to handle strong crosswinds. (Vid 161).
• Tips to improve your crosswind technique. (Vid 114).
• Touching down in a strong crosswind. (Vid 180 and Vid 202).
• Also see My Morsels.

Excursions: techniques to avoid them.

Final:

• 9 approach to landing problems - how to recover from each.
• Follow the PAPI/VASI on final, or aim for the numbers?
• High on final?
• Here are 6 ways to fix it.
• How should you correct?
• Low on final? How should you correct?
• Why am I low on final approach? (Vid 47).
• Managing airspeed, power, and configuration on final. (Vid 186).

Flaps:

• 4 reasons you might not use full flaps on landing.
• Full flaps all at once?
• How to fly a no-flap landing.
• Partial flaps - when should you land with them? (Vid 176).
• Raise flaps on landing for a shorter ground roll? (Vid 185).
• Why use flaps for landing? (Vid 189).

Flare / Roundout:

• Having trouble with your flare and touchdown? (Vid 112).
• How to correct a high flare during landing.
• How to correct a late or rapid flare during landing.
• How to recover from a balloon during your landing flare.
• How to time your flare for a perfect landing.
• Late or rapid flare - how to correct.
• When should you start your flare? Vid 102 or 173.
• Where to look. (Machado vid).  This is opinion. I look way down the runway and/or the horizon. 

Floating: see Ground effect below.

Go around(s): go to Maneuvers.

Ground effect:

• Floating down the runway? Here's how to fix it.
• How to fix your float. (AV Safety).
• Struggling with floating during landing? (Vid 41).
• What is it? See Aerodynamics.
• Why your plane floats during landing.

Gusts:

• Gusty crosswind landings. (MzA vid).
• Landing in gusty winds. (Vid 38).
• What's your limit for landing in gusty winds? See also My Morsels.
• Why add half the gust factor for windy day landings? (or Vid 127).

High Altitude airports:

• How can I land better at high altitude airports? (Vid 1).

Hydroplaning:

• Quiz: Hydroplaning only occurs to ___. 5Qs.
• The 3 types of hydroplaning, and how to prevent them.

Impossible or Improbable turn:

• All or Nothing. (Aviation Safety).
• FAA to CFIs: Teach the impossible turn.
• Is the impossible turn possible? (FlightInsight Vid).
• NAFI CFI.
• SAFE Broadcast.
• The Impossible Turn 500FT (it's not impossible). FLY8MA.
• The-Not-That-Impossible Turn. (Cub Theatre).
• What NTSB reports say about impossible turns and AOA (Part I, Part II).
• See My Morsels on this topic.

Knowledge Check / Quizzes:

• In preparation for a normal landing... 9Qs.
• You are practicing landings in your Piper... 6Qs
• You're flying into Flagstaff, AZ… 5Qs

Landing Gear: see Systems.

Long landing:

• How to prevent landing long. (Vid 227).

Low approach:

• How to fly one.

Pilot Induced Oscillation (PIO) or Porpoising:

• My Morsels.

Power-out 180s:

• 180 power out landings - nail your landing spot every time. (vid)
• NAFI video 1. NAFI video 2.
• Why you should practice Power-Off 180 landings.

Runway / Conditions:

• 4 ways to make safer landings in the winter.
• Contaminated runway? Here's how to know the braking conditions.

Separation:

• There's an airplane on the runway. Can I land?
• What if an airplane taxied in front of you during touchdown?

Short Field:

• 9 tips to pass the checkride short field landings.
• Achieving short field success. (FAA).
• How to fly a perfect short field landing.
• Runway overrun caused by short field landing technique...
• Short and rough field landings. (article)
• Why this landing went wrong and part deux. (AvWeb vid).

Soft Field:

• How to make a perfect soft field landing.

Stabilized approach (and landing):

• Flyer from FAASTeam.

Stop-and-go landing:

• How to fly one.

Tailwinds:

• 6 hazards of tailwinds during takeoff and landing.
• Why landing with a tailwind increases your risk of a runway excursion.

Touch-and-Go:

• How to fly a touch-and-go landing.

Touchdown / Touchdown Point:

• Aimpoint vs touchdown point. Vid 1, Vid 2.
• Avoid hard landings (AOPA video).
• Perfecting your touchdown point. (Vid 40).
• Stop landing left of center. (MzA vid)
• Tips to perfect your touchdown point. (Vid 56).
• Why you can't hold centerline on landing. (vid)

Turbulence/Wake Turbulence:

• How to avoid wake turbulence during takeoff and landing.
• How to make smooth touchdown when landing in turbulence.
• No matter what you fly, this wake turbulence accident could happen.
• Quiz: The greatest vortex strength occurs... 6Qs.
• Tips to avoid wake turbulence. Vid 21, Vid 62, Vid 162 or Vid 217.

Turn back to land: see Impossible or Improbable Turn above.

Wake turbulence: see Turbulence above.

See also: Pilot Tips of the Week and Human Factors.