Maneuvers / Execution / Techniques

Braking - see Landing

Emergencies - separate page.

Energy Management.  From AFH Chapter 4 - Energy management can be defined as the process of planning, monitoring, and controlling altitude and airspeed targets in relation to the airplane’s energy state in order to:

1. Attain / maintain desired vertical flightpath-airspeed profiles.
2. Detect, correct, and prevent unintentional altitude-airspeed deviations from desired energy state.
3. Prevent irreversible deceleration and/or sink rate that results in a crash.

• Energy Errors (AvWeb)
• Energy Management. (FAASTeam)
• Pitch and Power: Energy management is key to mastery of flight.
• Also check Aerodynamics

Go Around(s):

• 8 times you should go-around during landing.
• The first item is "bad bounce" - not "bounce".
• Go-around technique.
• The aircraft will always go UP and LEFT (assuming a single engine piston aircraft)
• The 'binary' go-around.  Have you been instructed, or is it your own notion, that a bounced landing should be followed by a go-around?  If so, be careful of any 'binary' flying.  Physics are binary but how we handle things is usually not.  Here is a video of a bounce into a go around.  The plane could have easily landed from the bounce and if you're going to go around, do it correctly.  The video might be hard for some to watch.
• Also see My Morsals / Pilot Tips of the Week.

Ground Ops:

• Taxiing - 9 common mistakes pilots make.

Landing +

• 4 braking tips for every landing.
• 5 reasons your landings aren't smooth.
• 10 tips for safer takeoffs and landings. (FAA)
• Aimpoint vs touchdown point. Vid 1, Vid 2.
• Bounced landing, how to recover.
• Crosswinds:
• 3 common crosswind landing mistakes, and how to prevent them.
• Crosswind landing tips.
• Light crosswinds cause three landing accidents.
• Tips to handle strong crosswinds.
• Feel like your landings are getting worse?
• Flaps
• Full flaps all at once?
• Should you raise flaps on landing for a shorter ground roll? (vid)
• Flare
• Late or rapid flare - how to correct.
• When should you start?
• Floating, fixing it.
• Go around(s) - see above
• Gusts:
• Why add half the gust factor for windy day landings? (vid)
• Why add half the gust factor for windy day landings?
• How to time your flare for a perfect landing.
• Hydroplaning:
• The 3 types of hydroplaning, and how to prevent them.
• Impossible turn.
• Improbable turn. (YouTube)
• Short field:
• Runway overrun caused by short field landing technique...
• Takeoff and landing refresher. (Wally Moran)
• Tips to get on the centerline.
• Wake turbulence:
• Tips to avoid wake turbulence from larger aircraft.
• Why landing with a tailwind increases your risk of an accident.
• See also Pilot Tips of the Week.

Maneuver Guides

• C172 (Rick Aviation, 2018)
• C172 (EKU Aviation, 2020)
• C172 S/R (Thrust Flight, 2021)

Passengers

• 9 ways to make nervous passengers more comfortable.

Slips

• Forward slip.
• Real pilots know how to slip.
• Stalling in a forward slip.

Spins - go to Maneuvers / Techniques / Execution.

Stalls +

• 4 ways to get better at stall recoveries.
• Cross-controlled stalls: How to prevent them.
• Decelerated stalls - do they exist? (GA News)
• Quiz on stalls:
• Any point beyond _____ is where... 6Qs
• Assuming your aircraft's weight... 6Qs
• What happens when you increase... 5Qs
• The stall horn fallacy of stall prevention.

Steep Turns

• The aerodynamics of a steep turn.
• Article by Aviation Safety.

Takeoff +

• 10 tips for safer takeoffs and landings. (FAA)
• Go around(s) - see above
• Impossible turn.
• Improbable turn. (YouTube)
• Short field: how to make a good one.
• Takeoff and landing refresher. (Wally Moran)
• See also Performance.
• See also Pilot Tips of the Week.

Traffic Patterns

• C172, how I execute patterns in a Skyhawk
• Commit to Pattern Precision (FAA)
• Fly a perfect pattern. (Pilot Workshops)
• Go arounds (see takeoff section above)
• Impossible turn.
• Improbable turn. (YouTube)

Turn performance (radius)

Visual Flight - how to enforce it

• If you have students who stare at the gauges, my first recommendation is to cover them.  So as not to keep them from recognizing a 30° bank turn, I let them see it.  I cut a suction cup to hide the ADI minus the 30° bank turn.  Why?  Because I want them to hear, feel, sense their energy state by using their nose position.  This is also where the stall warning comes into  effect.
  

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