I'll second that one big time.

I was landing at idle power and finding that I landed hard and often bounced. I had previously flown Gliders, full sized and RC, and pitch (i.e. elevator) was the only control on approach. Since there was not enough airspeed to fly the second landing was just as hard. When I started learning to use the throttle to control the approach and not the elevator my landings changed immediately. When the approach is good and you have the space just a touch of power in the flare makes your landings look excellent. It just arrests the decent enought to make it a touchdown rather than a landing.

When you get your own plane and flying solo try and get to the field when there are very few other people there and just fly touch and gos, lots of them. And when you have done lots of them do lots more. You will improve more in that one or two hours than you could believe. If the approach looks bad then go around, don't push a bad approach and bust up your model.



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