Without knowing a little more, I can only speculate. If you are flying off pavement, then making really nice landings are tough, but manageable. On grass, the landing issue gets a little easeier.

Now with this being said, a good landing is generally always a product of a good approach! One thing you may have is an inconsistent approach path and speed. This is one area most people forget about. You want to strive to make your approach the exact same way evertime! If for nothing else it gets you eyes used to seeing everything the same way and lets your mind think of nothing more than the flare.

The flare, this is one of the most difficult things to do properly, but is one of the most simple to understand. All you are really doing when flaring to land is to arrest you sink rate and raise the nose of the airplane to a nose high position. If you are to fast on your approach, then the airplane will appera to "float" down the runway. If you are too slow in your approach ... well the bad things that this can cause are too numerous to go into here! So the best thing is to keep a little (key word is LITTLE) extra spped during an approach.

As to how I teach an approach and landing is simple. If the airplane is pointing slightly nose down, then you are flying down! You don't want to be flying an approach with the nose high, this could lead to rapid airspeed loss and stalling the airplane! So, the easiest way to fly your approach is to point the nose down to the descent rate you want and adjust power for airspeed.

NOW BEFORE EVERYONE GETS ON ME FOR THAT ONE, pitch and power BOTH play a factor in the sink rate and speed of an aircraft, I know! But once you realize that you have the landing idea down pat! But at first lets give someone somewhere to start that will keep them from ending up with a nose high airplane with no power trying to make an airplane sink. That phase of flying is dangerous for a beginner.

Now that you have the proper descent path set up, you should be in a nose DOWN angle with little power (around 20%.) Once you get over the runway, or can make a safe glide to the runway, and are hopefully around eye level above the runway reduce power to idle. If the engine is at idle with the airplane still 100 feet in the air, you may be trying to come in with to steep and approach angle, go around and try again! Now what is an airplane with NO power ... A BRICK! The airplane will naturally fall from the sky. So don't worry about making it come to earth it will do it on its own! What we want to be concerned with is ARRESTING that fall! How do we do that? Easy, the airplane in a nose low attitude is actually flying forward, and this gives you energy! We need to use that forward energy to arrest the downward energy by pullting back on the elevator stick! This does 2 things it will raise the nose AND slow the airplane! Now we don't want to get the airplane to slow! So as soon as the airplane is in an attitude that will NOT let a nose wheel hit the ground first, you are set up for landing. Just hold that attitude until the airplane is a 6" - 12" off the ground and if the airplane starts to sink to fast, pull back SLIGHTLY on the elevator. This will level the airplane off for a second as the speed slows down, and then the airplane will start to slowly sink again. If the airplane starts to sink to fast again, repeat procedure above until you have the elevator full back. If the airplane is not on the ground by the time you have gotten to a full back elevator stick position, you may want to add power and go around and try it all over again!

This is called a full stall landing!

If you fly a tail dragger, then you have the option of doing what is called a Wheel Landing. This is essentially the same except that your approach is made with SLIGHTLY more speed. You want get the airplane in a wings level attitude 6" - 12" from terra firma. Now hold that pitch until the airplane sinks to the ground. If sink is too much, use same process as above but with verly slight movement of the stick! You ideally want to touch down in a levle attitude with SLIGHTLY more speed than the previous described landing. What you are doing is flying it onto the runway istead of stalling it onto the runway. The key to this landing is that the istant the main gear touch the ground, release elevator stick (and in some cased add a small amount of FORWARD stick pressure) to make the tail stay up in the air while the mains are "forced" onto the ground slight by the airplane's pitching slightly downward.

A whell landing is a very graceful manuever!!! But it takes a lot of practice!!!

With this bit of info, your landing may come out better. But the whole issues with good landings are good approaches and gentle movements of the controls!

Thanks,

Reg