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Old 10-08-2003 | 02:38 PM
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zoti
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Default RE: Final approach.

Thank you all for the replys.

I forgot to mention that I have an Avistar. I have been flying it for a few weeks now. My general experience comes from the Israeli Air Force flight school where I flew about 15 hours in a piper super cab.

The thing is I try not to land with the nose gear first and I happen to find myself flaring a bit to high and then I drop and bounce. I sometimes get really nice landings but I can still not see what I'm doing right on those landings that I do wrong on the ones I bounce.

I do tend to make my approach long so I can always add power to keep the gliding path. I did notice commercial jets do that as well and I feel comfortable doing it as well.

I guess all I have to do is practice more. What I did last time was to try some slow passes over the runway with throttle as low as I can keep it and a high angle of attack just to get the feeling of when it's about to stall.