Hey, MzeroA nation.
Jason here. Don't flare on landing. I get a lot of flak
for this one sometimes but allow me to explain. I don't teach to flare on landing. I want you to ditch the word flare
from your vocabulary, instead, I want you to transition. Transition to what? Transition to exactly we did last week,
slow flight. Slow flight down the runway. Act like you want to do slow flight,
but the power is back, you'll have a nice
smooth touchdown after that. The reason I don't
advocate a flare, when you think of a flare
what do you think? You think of a 747
that was no longer flying, right. But 747,
when it would come in to land-- the space shuttle,
when it would come into land. Be my touchdown point
here carb heat, power back, 10 degrees of flaps, perfect. Landing still starts
with the perfect pattern. >> So, I'm going to come in here
and I'm going to do a slightly exaggerated flare. I share this because I had a student
way, way back in the day come in the land. I always let my new students
fly the airplane, even on landing help them a little bit. He was coming
and he was flying really, really well. We got to the point
where I said, "Okay, flare." And he literally took the yoke
back to his chest and I thought, "Oh,"
and we shot up to the moon and made a nice little
go-around of course. But, from there,
I realized we can't use that word flare. We need a different word. Williston traffic,
Skyhawk 2-3-Mike-Zulu is turn left base 3-2
touch and go, Williston. >> Here's my rationale too. You've never want to be in a position
where you can't see down the runway. A big focus is,
taking your eyes down that runway. As you transition the nose up
as you move to slow flight, you should transition your eyes
down that runway to 300, 400, 500 feet. Look towards the tree line
for all that matters. Final is clear. Williston traffic,
Skyhawk 2-3-Mike-Zulu is turning final runway 3-2
touch and go, Williston traffic. Alright. Happy with my flaps
and everything for now. Happy with my speed of 80,
perfect land search the perfect pattern. We're going to fly
everything perfect and the last little bit we are going
to flare rather transitioning, also with a really nasty flare. You certainly risk
hitting the tail as well. I'm not advocating, by the way,
a three-point landing. I'll show you what I mean
when I say transition on the next lap. >> But for now, what I mean is I want--
we're going to really, really pitch this thing back,
which is not what we want. Even with my transition,
I still have the mains touching first followed by the nose. Just not as drastic
as we're going to demonstrate here. Alright, I'm going to go full flaps. All is looking good. Coming in. I haven't heard anybody on the radios,
65 of airport property. Life's looking pretty good. We're coming in, my eyes are looking
by the way at the number 3-2. We're looking good. We're looking good. We get to where I would
normally transition which was right about here and instead we flare a little bit
and we pitch back and we hold it back and we actually ended up climbing
and we hold it back and we pitched back
more, more, more, and more and we hit down hard as you can see. We don't flare on landing, alright? Let's go ahead.
Let's do another one. Flap is coming up. I hate bouncing
in a perfectly good airplane. It breaks my heart every single time. I'll catch up with you
all over on the downwind. >> Alright, MzeroA nation. Back on the downwind now. I got to tell you,
as I was flying this crosswind and starting the downwind here,
my heart hurts a little bit having to do that to 2-3-Mike-Zulu. The things we do for the MzeroA nation,
but I wanted to demonstrate. We just don't flare,
you pitch back too much as you heard, I don't know if you could hear
the stall warning horn coming on. We slammed that thing in all
because we flared and it start--even though
our speed was good, we flared, we gained a little bit of altitude,
we run it back down, we flared again, now we're too slow, and you end up
just slamming the airplane in. We've all done it. I have done it many
times back in the day in my Pilot Pod training. >> Male: Williston traffic, Bonanza-4-5-8,
is about 10 miles to the southwest [unin] 3-2. >> Jason: Carb heat, power back,
10 degrees flaps. I got one, he's 10 miles up,
shouldn't be a factor here. Alright.
Now, we're going to transition. We're going to transition
as we transition the nose up, we'll transition our eyes
right down that runway, just a little bit here,
and we're just going to work to a baby and hold this aircraft, same speeds,
same flap configurations, it's all about where you put your nose
and where you put your eyes as well. >> Williston traffic,
Skyhawk 2-3-Mike-Zulu is turning left base
runway 3-2, Williston. Alright, all is looking good
on the base here, slowing down to 80. On base. Next notch flaps, a Bonanza. Bonanzas are fast but he is 10 miles out,
shouldn't be an issue for this. All is good. Verify final is clear. Final is clear. [Poor line checklist,] fuel,
that, and the seat belts, all is good. Williston traffic, Skyhawk 2-3-Mike-Zulu
is turning final runway 3-2, Williston. Alright. Looking good.
I'll get my full flaps now. I don't like flaps in
in a turn. That's probably a video all in itself. So, once I get wings level right here,
I'll go to my next notch. A little bit on the high side,
correcting. >> Male: Williston traffic,
Bonanza-4-5-8 is about five miles
to the southwest it's going to be entering that midfield,
left that one for 2-3. Good to go. >> Jason: It shouldn't be an issue. Alright. Looking good back on glide path. Speed is looking great,
slow into 68 over the fence. Two, three knots faster
than last time now we're at 65, good. All right, looking good. Aiming eyes looking at that 3-2,
really looking at the dirt in front of it. I'm at idle and watch this right here,
transition hold it here. Eyes, look at the trees. Hold it here, hold it here,
hold it here, hold it here. >> Male: Williston traffic,
Bonanza-4-5-8 is entering the midfield left down
one for 3-2, that's good. >> Jason: It has all it takes, team. We don't flare.
We transition. Transition the nose up,
transition your eyes down the runway. MzeroA nation,
I hope you'll be joining us, August 19th
for our huge announcement. You certainly don't want to miss it,
big things coming to MzeroA. Have a wonderful rest of your day. And most importantly, remember,
that a good pilot is always learning. We'll see you guys.
