Hi Scotty. I will toss in my two cents worth here, hope it helps. I went from the NexSTAR trainer to the Tiger 60 and had to go through the same basic learning curve related to landing. I especially liked the narrative given above by Tonystro and his landing technique. It fits the bill 100% and then some.

My instructor kept telling me "keep the nose level, you should not see the bottom of the wing". That was valuable information that seems to keep applying to everything I have flown since. One thing I really had to re-learn after the trainer was those two clicks of throttle on final then idle just as the plane starts to get abreast and watch it grease itself right to a smooth three point landing. Works every time. TianC said it best Throttle for rate of descent and elevator for speed control. If you want to move the point of landing further, add throttle, leave the elevator the way it is. Your glide slope will become more shallow and you will sail a bit further, then reduce throttle to those two clicks until you are ready to go to idle and land. Slight addition of the elevator to slow it down and it will smoothly land on the mains and nosewheel all at the same time.

I am also trying to learn how to fly the tail-draggers to a smooth landing. I keep bouncing it on what seems a good approach. Perhaps someone out there can toss in a suggestion? What d'ya think, Tony?

Touch and go's Scotty.. do it every time!!

Dick.