Fundamental Series Episode 1 - Landings

i'm jason shappert and these are the [Music] fundamentals we make the fundamentals of landing uh an easy day right so like i said we're going to be doing some fundamentals some seven three nine and pop challenge fundamentals here starting out with a no flap landing i'm gonna show you it's gonna be interesting and actually it's somewhat appropriate grant that's gusting to to one niner gusting to 19 out here a no-flap landing is going to be appropriate into the mike zulu's midfield right downwind for a touch and go please choo-choo mike zillow count tower runway one eight clear touch goal one day clear touch and go thank you two three mike silva all right so i'm on my downwind again a no flap landing i need to adjust my patterns accordingly here so i gotta beat my touchdown point the numbers one eight i need you to start using your procedures for me it's carb heat power back when i say power back roughly like a run up rpm maybe a little higher 17 18 1900 i'm pulling back to 2 000 1900 normally i'd add 10 degrees of flaps i'm not going to i'm going to also fly this downwind out just a little bit further than i normally would uh two factors not only because it's no flap i will have a little bit of a bigger pattern so more opportunity to come in and get this as normal of an approach path is possible which will help me manage my speed better so i'm not diving to get down and picking up air speed but also when i am gusting i'm going to turn the base now a little beyond my probably about 10 seconds later than i normally would have i'm turn based now another reason with it gusting 19 wow it's just gonna be hard to get down i mean i'm landing one eight it's two zero zero gusts up to one niner it's a little bit of a crosswind factor it's just gonna be tough to get down in general i mean even if i keep this airplane nice and slow there's going to be a lot of air just flowing over those wings keeping me afloat and this airplane loves to fly so i'm only descending about 200 feet per minute now there we go i have to adjust the 786 i just want some more power back i'm turning final round okay so i'm in a spot here if you look i'm only at 800 feet agl msl are about the same i normally turn final about five two one seven two one zero at one seven now it's steady that does include my gusts so i'm thankful i'm this far out happy light show i'm high i'm also about a half mile longer than i typically would be which allows me to then still hit the same spot at 500 feet just like you heard where i would normally be i've got the power to i don't know 1300 or 1400 rpms it says i mean idle that's pretty close to idle that might be 10 15 i'm gonna give it a little bit more i got a little bit of a sink this is another factor on a gusty day like today you're gonna ride the waves you're gonna catch the big gusts that you think ah now i'm high then you lose that big gust and then you end up sinking i've got one light on my papi's how's my speed though it's easy to stare at the papi's go wow i'm one light high what i'm most concerned with is look at my airspeed i don't like being 80 this far out i need to manage that a little better how can i adjust that well when i'm on glide path like i am now look at the papi's i can pick that nose up just a little bit and look even without flaps i can manage to get some reasonable landing speeds now here's another factor i've got 17 knots of wind hitting my pinot tube right now how much of that 76 indicated is real right that's a question you kind of have to ask yourself how does the airplane feel as well so coming in here it's looking good i'm looking like i'm a touchdown the first center line strike that's where my eyes are looking power's coming back to idle because i have that runway made there goes one eight a little long on my projection there how about the end or the beginning caught a gust sometimes you catch a gust it just proves everybody wrong it'll set you down like that no flaps to adjust car repeats coming in confirm this is the throttle throttle is coming in heels hit the floor toes the bottom of the pedals riding those waves warm across one and they're staying there and we are up and flying again a no-flap landing a great thing to practice and another reason we practice this is we'll talk a lot about this is landing at night more on that when we cut to that but let's go ahead and let's cut away here for a second and let's pick it back up on the downwind where i'm going to show you kind of the opposite i'll show you a power off 180. i promise i know this sounds hodge-podged but i promise if you do this in this succinct order it's all going to make sense and at the end on landing number five our normal landing is going to come in just like butter all right let's go ahead let's uh let's cut back down to the ground where i can share some more teaching points with you and then let's cut to the downwind so why do we practice a power off 180 it's actually a power off accuracy approach to landing as its technical term our real goal is to learn how to guide our airplane the power off configuration to a very small piece of pavement it's actually a commercial pilot maneuver but i even make my private pilots practice it maybe not to the same accuracy as a commercial pilot but it's going to benefit you so greatly what if i were to have an engine failure and it's just this small field i'm aiming for or the beginning of that small field to maximize my roll out we need to know how our aircraft glides in the power off configuration and then what does a turn due to that equation as well as you bring it around so let's head up and let's kind of pick it up from the crosswind downwind and let's let me show you a power off 180. 1023 mike zulu as you enter the downwind should be able to see your citation it's about a mile and a half or so straight in now traffic to follow in sight to the microphone tower number three three miles southeast of california at 2 30 mike zulu that traffic is falling is full stop number two runway one eight clear touch and go number two one eight clear from touchdown thank you to the mike zulu all right so we've been through we are cleared for our touchscreen continue report midfield now working through these fundamentals we're working through the basics doing a uh dusting of 19 steady at one seven uh not wind for a power off 180 and not my uh this is my commercial pilot check ride i would not be feeling too warm and fuzzy about the whole process right because wind poses such a challenge but it allows you uh coming from the no flap environment which was all about managing speed yet without the drag this time doing the powerful 180 we're going to still be managing speed but without the thrust again there's a there's a reason we're following this syntax this order that we're doing everything in because by the end of this it's going to make you a better pilot i promise you that much my goal is going to be the beginning of the first center line strike three two two three things stripes are 120 feet in length with 80 feet in between to the next strike gives you the perfect 200 foot box i'm already clear touch and go out to seven beat my touchdown point carburetor [Applause] about seven seconds or so right about here and i'm gonna turn my base now it's so easy to get excited i have a tailwind now now i have a crosswind pushing me away plus with winds were like two two zero at one seventy cent right so it's pushing me where it's easy to get excited to go whoa i'm going to blaze right through this thing i am so high i need to get on down and then you turn into 20 knots of wind with all your flaps in and you come short it's an easy mistake to make i made such a mistake i'm gonna go 10 degrees flaps right here and we're looking good again i am i am sinking much faster look at this 800 feet per minute much faster than i'd actually like to be um but i'm telling you i'm gonna go 20 degrees flaps and now i'm gonna go ahead and turn the final here much easier to get down [Applause] back up watch what happens the moment i turn into this monster number two father traffic runway one equivalent slow down my ground speed so abruptly you might look at the papi's go wow jason you're high man i'd rather be high to the mic zoo doesn't have a void slips the flaps extended so i could slip this thing on if i have to i like my speed my speed is 75 i'm showing 60 or 59 across the ground though so not being much of a help to me and really getting rocked around to keep my hand here on the throttle just in case i have to go around i'm gonna land with 20 degrees of flaps i know it sounds a little bit crazy again and you look at the commercial plot acs it doesn't really say where you need to um where you need to be flat was you could do it no flap you could do full flap you could do a partial flaps if you really had to with this all right speeds now slow into 70. i'm losing a gust now let's see if we can stretch this thing on out as we begin to slow on down look at the paddy lights now tell me i'm low again they're geared a little bit further further down the runway here we're looking good i know this airplane has a tendency to float so i'm going to hold it off aiming ahead of my point hold it off hold it off hold it off hold it off how did i do wing cam i think i might have been like two feet too early we'll let you all on the wing cam tell me how i was with that one i i the centerline start was coming so close it might have been again there's no reason to be that precise with it you should go 50 feet long because what you should really aim for just so there's no discrepancies flaps are up carburetor heat is off smoothly applying some full power wing cam you could tell the truth on that one was i was i a foot or two too early or are we right on there i'm not sure about i couldn't quite tell we'll let you all be the judge let me know in the comments give me a give me a score on that one i will continue on here the next one we're going to do is actually a seaplane technique so i can teach it better and atc doesn't talk over me a little bit let's cut back to the ground because i want to teach this more thoroughly to you and then we'll cut to the downward where we're actually going to demonstrate it so now we're getting into some seaplane pilot techniques with a glassy water landing this is something that actually sounds counterintuitive you would think nice smooth beautiful glassy water would be best for seaplane pilots to land on it's actually my least favorite configuration of land and it's a seaplane pilot the water is so reflective you really can't see them you can't judge depth or anything like that so we do what's called a glassy water landing which is where we put in ourselves in a landing attitude about 200 feet agl and we slowly descend 50 maybe 100 maybe 150 feet per minute allowing the water to come to us this is the same thing maybe you'll never be a seaplane pilot i would encourage you to become one though this is the same kind of technique you should follow though if you lose a landing light at night by the way let me know in the comments who's ever lost a landing light at night whether it be the landing lights fault an altenew's fault a battery's fault whatever it may be something electrical if you ever landed at night either on purpose or by practice without a landing light at night you know what i'm talking about and something great to practice with your instructor as well landing at night without a landing light anyways this is a new maneuver for you so let's head up to the cockpit and let me show it to you one night clear touch and go thank you to the maximum all right winds are getting better i guess hey we're going to turn you on the seaplane pilots whether you know it or not this time and again you see no flap glass glassy water technique how this can benefit you say if you have an alternator failure at night right how am i going to turn over what if i not just air failure i can't get my landline on what if i just lose my landing there that's correct sir power back roughly 17 18 19 you're 2 000 rpms depends on your airplane 10 degrees of flaps treat this just like it's a normal landing so on the glassy water landing where the magic's going to really start is around 200 feet agl around 200 feet agl i want to set up a pitch attitude that allows me to continue to descend but i don't want to descend really more than 150 feet per minute i'm going to use power and i'm going to literally in seaplane flying we let the water come to us we say i hold my pitch attitude and i trust that the water is going to come well we're going to do the same thing with the pavement now with this technique after this 200 feet agl you want to avoid a lot of turning obviously the seaplane flying it's less about following a center line you're just trying to pick a lane to actually land it here we have a center line there's some other things we need to certainly consider going 20 degrees of flaps on base so if you think you're going to side load or anything like that don't make crazy changes if you're going to go around go around right even at less than 200 agl please so we got this i got a little bit of a crab technique coming in here just because of how i'm being pushed away and when i get to about 200 feet agl i'm just going to set my landing attitude and give myself about a hundred foot to maybe 150 foot per minute actual descent nothing more zero at one two one zero one two life's getting well better less velocity um two one zero is not exactly that helpful landing one eight but that's okay better than most of my other options so you wanna have typically let's pretend this has landed at night and i lost my landing light anybody ever done a no landing light landing on purpose is preferred you don't want to have to do it in the real world because something dies but sometimes that happens if not it's something you need to practice but you need to do this this uh five part sequence here before you even consider doing such so i'm lined up nicely on center line you heard my 500 foot call out you know i'm gonna go i'm spoiled i can really choose my flap settings i'm about 25 26 degrees is what it looks like there i'm coming in and everything is looking great i'm at 400 feet again agl msl are just about the same where i'm at in florida so we're getting down there and everything's looking really great then when i get right about here about 200 feet agl i'm actually gonna have to give it a little bit of power i'm giving it power because i need to arrest that descent a little bit i don't care where you touch down on the runway right this is simulating i lost my landing light i'm just thankful to be down and i want you to establish about 100 150 foot per minute descent i'm going to use a little bit of trim in here and i'm going to hold this attitude and i'm going to look like i'm landing long i am landing long that's fine i want to set this up and i'm going to let the ground kind of come to me because if this was at night this is the technique i'd want to follow right in between the right in between the runway lights right because i can't see anything i'm just trusting the ground is going to come i'm old i'm at 100 feet per minute right now get blown around a little bit a gusty day is not the best day to practice this but it's what we're given today i'm at 50 feet per minute i'm literally kind of like doing slow flight down the runway in a way which is next for us 50 feet 100 feet i'm just holding this attitude i'm not changing my pitch attitude i'm going to touch down wait with power my power hasn't changed 50 feet per minute oh that's actually one of my better landings right then bring the power back to idle and land the airplane these are flaps confirm their flaps coming up i got plenty of runway left carburetor heat full power here we go got 4000 feet of runway left 3 500 now and we're up and out here so taking some techniques from my seaplane pilots out there that will come easily for you but choosing that power setting and holding that pitch choosing that pitch as well it's going to give you i mean i got down about 50 feet per minute there at the very end and it just set itself on so nicely and i landed with power now you might say oh i'm a land with power that's uh for every land you can't do that you also saw i left 3 000 feet of great runway behind me that's not going to be acceptable this is in that situation at night i've lost my landing light and you might be saying how are these fundamentals how are sea plane pilot techniques fundamentals trust me the things we're doing integrate so perfectly with the science of learning and what the next technique we're going to do is one of my favorites so again i can teach better on the ground too let's head back to the ground let me teach you a little bit about slow flight down the runway now so you've seen me do slow flight down the runway before if you've been following m3 for any length of time it's a favorite of mine it is a great way to get students to quickly improve on their landings but i'm bringing it back up here again and you're beginning to see why we're going to be practicing these in this particular order i want you to get down and hold that airplane just inches off the ground practicing slow flight down the runway you'll see here as we demonstrate the ailerons aren't too terribly effective the rudder is our key to success though anyways enough from me let's get flying let me show it to you slow flight down the runway like we said you want to have a nice long runway before you actually practice this the goal is to get as close to the runway as possible and not actually touch down we're going to treat this just like a normal approach so i'll be my touchdown point carburetor heat my power is going to come on back i'm going to give it 10 degrees of flaps it'll be fun today since today is so gusty um with how this works it'll be really you hear me use this term a lot riding of the waves we'll be riding the waves um very much so no doubt so we've got that i'm gonna go ahead about another second or two there's my 45 degree angle let's turn our right face doing this right traffic to adds to the you know we get so engrained into doing left traffic doing this right traffic adds just another element uh to it sometimes some of you might be super comfortable with right traffic it just depends on you and the majority you're flying to maybe you're a helicopter pilot right right traffic makes sense to you 20 degrees of flaps come in here almost a good engine sprint set set set and again i'm just treat it like the next one that's gonna be a normal landing after this we bring everything together but realistically i just want to bring this in and not actually touch down i brought the power back i'm at 1300 rpms i'm turning final i'm at 700 feet msl i'll hit my five you'll hear my 500 foot call out here in just a second a little on the high side no problem nothing we can't fix with my last notch of flaps put those sails out there's my five foot call out i'm probably a tenth of a mile closer than i'd like to be maybe even a half of that not too bad we'll get down again with this big gusty wind it can be hard to get down but i'm not covering a lot of ground going into this much of a headwind it sounds like as we've been going the wind's been getting calmer and calmer you see the sun's starting to set out here so the wind is getting calmer and colder my eyes are looking at the numbers one eight and we're just bringing it on into zero zero niner two zero zero nine life's getting better right slowly as we go it's getting better and better here now as i come in here i'm looking at one eight i'm gonna actually be adding a power because i don't wanna touch down good gust i want to just do slow flight down the runway so i'm all configured for that and as i get into ground effect or i typically transition remember i don't like to use the word flare i think it just gives a negative connotation when you get to ground effect i just add a little power but 1500 rpms and i'm holding this here 1500 rpms is doing it similar pitch attitude but with a more of a level attitude to our glass water i'm thinking i'm giving it some power stall warning give it some power 1800 rpms holding it right here 50 is what my ground speed is 60 is what's indicated hold it here don't touch the ground ah don't touch the ground jason hold it here now i need you to note something real quick i'm going to show you let's make sure the cameras capture this look at my ailerons right look what they're doing right here if i was at 90 knots what would the airplane be doing right now a whole lot now watch my rudders ready watch this look how effective these rudders are right these rudders this runner look how effective my runner is my rudder is everything i've got 2500 feet runway left i'm gonna go carburetor heat leave my flaps where they're at full power just execute this new go around now i'm going to be mindful of this i got a lot of trims i'm pushing forward a little bit flaps go right to 20. we get through this i'll teach another second through 70 flaps to 10. confirm pause the rate of climb confirmed flaps up and now go around procedure complete all right you see the ailerons aren't doing much go try to do that same thing now right the airplane rolls just about when we do that the rudder is what's most effective at these slower air speeds slow flight down the runway can help you gain better control of your aircraft and if you ever find yourself landing off center line if you ever find yourself side loading the airplane slow flight down the runway can help a lot our glassy water landing was a precursor working us up to that again these seem like just all these random landings it's something called mixed practice and this mixed practice is going to all culminate now in landing number five which gosh if you're doing more than five landings maybe six maybe you can stretch the six landings on a lesson you start getting mental fatigue after that five six land is about all you need to do with that you see how long this video is right the die hards made it this far in this video because you're thinking i need to improve my landings you want to improve your landings right so we're going to bring this around now for a normal plan i'll keep you going with me in the pattern here here's my pattern altitude i'm turning downwind let's go activity mike zulu is turning uh right down with now one eight this will be a full stop two three minutes one eight work for land one eight clear land thank you through mike zulu all right we're gonna have a quick downwind with that big old um tail oh my god they just turned the lights on it's getting it's getting late here everything's going to culminate into this a normal lane we did all sorts of different landings you see mixed practice says doing the same thing doing like six or seven or ten touch and goes all the same style actually isn't good for you do you remember the video back in february i think it was the second tuesday in february where i did the mixed practice radio calls with magda you get to see how she improved as we went along and we did class d departure then flight following then pilot controlled uncontrolled radio communications all very different things mixed practice right helps us continue to improve because we're always varying what we're doing there all right leave my touchdown point carby powers come back 10 degrees of flaps team on your fifth landing for this lesson on the fundamentals just show me a nice normal landing with one bit of criteria i never want you to do a normal landing without a point to hit if you want to fly at the aviation mastery level i hope you've pre-ordered your copy of aviation mastery the book aviationmastery.com all proceeds benefit our 501c3 foundation i want if you're pursuing that mastery to never do a normal landing without a point just have a touchdown a desired touchdown point make it a little game to yourself right and again you could do nothing before 200 feet whatever you want to private pilot commercial standards from the acs guidelines whatever you want to do but always have a point i'm gonna go for the first centerline stripe that's nice and easy i told you earlier 120 feet in length 80 feet in between so i know what a 200 foot box looks like 20 degrees of flaps going in by the way and turning final two zero zero at niner two zero zero at niner so a little bit come in this direction and at niner nothing too major here nothing we can't handle the lights on uh sure make it a cool approach here's my 500 foot mark as i roll out from final that's about where i normally hear that or twice all right and all's looking good again gone are the days if you want to pursue mastery in aviation gone are the days of just saying you know what i'm just thankful to get the airplane down thankful to use the airplane another day well that that's something to be thankful for for sure normal landing give yourself a point to hit every time you're constantly improving because as you start to dive born across countries or instant procedures whatever that may be you're going to be doing more go arounds and more just one landing flights that you're used to from your private pilot days maybe you're there already let's work on a normal landing air speed is king we know i'm at uh 79 slowing to 76 now i'm gonna land with this 20 degrees of flaps i really like that a lot air speeds slow into 70. i show there we go two red two white on my papi which is actually a hair low for the first centerline stripe but no big deal air speed 69 i have an aiming point of 1 8 ahead of me here there we go there we go here goes our first center line straight let's see how we do now wing cam where was i i think i was right in the middle of that stripe a better spot to be than i was last time and just nicely slowing it down here let me just ask tower one thing and then we'll close this thing out you okay for a back taxi back to alpha one for two mike zulu okay you can make a 180 and exit alpha one back to your hanger sir thank you all right uh back taxi alpha one to the hangar thank you to the mike zulu all right it's one that we have so much construction going on i just want to confirm with him i'll clean up the airplane once we get off the runway here so we're not distracted with all of that missouri nation i know this is a longer video so thank you for those of you that are hearing these words right now because you played full out here went through one we look at our look at our youtube stats and the majority of people three drop off after one or two things if they don't think it's interesting or whatever that may be you are the die hard so thank you for that and playing full out i can't wait to read your comments below this video this is the first of our fundamentals series you thought the fundamentals are gonna be boring i'm telling you i'm gonna be sharing some really interesting things and these are lessons and little mini lesson plans you can go out and practice yourself you want to improve your landings you want to improve your flight train let's start to interject the science of learning today you saw mixed practice at play and we'll go ahead and work through that more so listen i read all your comments on youtube on day and most facebook.com wrote numbers approaching the pioneers

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Length: 27min 19sec (1639 seconds)

Published: Mon Mar 01 2021