hogflyer

a70eliminator-

A bunch of great suggestions above. What I like to do to help pilots learn to land on the runway at our field since it's a bit small is to take a trainer or sport plane that is fairly docile and work at flying the pattern and then touch-n-go's.

Start with the pattern first - just fly a standard pattern and instead of landing just fly down the runway at about 5'. This will let you start seeing the planes alignment on the runway and start to get the feel on how it looks to make an approach to land right in front of yourself. Take a weekend or two and just practice this and you'll really be surprised how well you'll start to see the runway centerline and keep the plane ligned up to it.

After you are confortable flying low approaches and going around keeping the plane on the centerline then work on touch-n-go's. At first just get the plane down on the runway centerline, then start working on getting the plane to touch down right in front of you. Take a few weeks and work on nothing but landings.

Before long you'll be making all your landing's right in front of you and the peanut gallery will either be quite or congratulating you on how good your able to land a plane. And you'll find that taking off and landing from the side of the plane will become second nature and you won't think anything about it. Just about anybody can bore a hole in the sky, but watch how few pilots can really do a good soft landing on a hard surface in the same spot everytime with differnt planes. That's the sign of a good pilot and it takes a lot of practice to get good landings down.

Hogflyer