All,

I've flown r/c gliders for years. Most of my time has been with slope gliders and most recently these gliders have carried a fairly high wing loading. I've never had much of an issue lading them, maybe because landing is more flying into the ground than actually "landing" in a traditional sense? At any rate, I've recently begun flying electrics and have had about a dozen flights on a Parkzone T-28. I am having no trouble in the air, take offs, and lining up for landings. I am however having a problem with touching down. I seem to have an issue with bouncing my landings and not having the plane settle in and stay in contact with the runway. I am thinking that maybe I am not controlling rate of descent with the throttle properly, but I don't know for sure. I think I am slowing the plane down enough...I see other T-28s come in at about the same speed and have no "bounce" issues. The only thing I can think of is that maybe the plane is descending too fast? When I say bounce, I mean a fairly significant bounce that seems to almost gain energy as it goes. The bounce will cause the plane to start to "porpoise" by the second or third bounce. The runway is dirt with a few weeds sticking up here and there.

Basically I do the following.

On the downwind I reduce the throttle to about half and let the plane start to slow down.

I make one big sweeping turn to final letting the plane lose a little altitude in the turn.

Once on final I reduce the throttle further to let the nose drop and start to descend towards the runway. At this point I still maintain a little throttle, but it's not very much.

Once over the end of the runway I let the plane descend to about eye level I guess, then start to flare. Throttle setting at this point is probably just enough to keep it turning.

When I am just off the runway (a foot or less) I completely cut the throttle and let it touch down.

This is where the bounce comes in. Can you offer any advice? What am I doing wrong?

Thanks in advance