I'm in no rush for the airlines. I really want to teach for a few years gain experiance, and have some fun doing it.
As far as this re-check I've been working hard at things and even polishing up an old short/soft field technique I never quite got the hang of.
You see when I was going the check the first time around I was setting up things so that I'd be landing on the 1000ft marker and established on Glide path with flaps set 30, gear down and locked and speed set for 63kts. About 1.75 stripes before the marker, on a no or light wind condition I could pull power flare normal and hit the marker. For higher wind conditions I'd pull power later then 1.75 stripes. The nice thing about this approach for a short field is that the decent rate is pretty smooth 400-500FPM. My CFI instructor, who does fly for a regional wanted me to set up fro it because the glide slope helps make sure that my appraoch is stabilized.
But there's an issue with this style. If I'm off my timing by even one second, I either undershoot or over shoot. (I busted by pulling power just a second too soon). Also I'm literally dragging the plane in on the 3 degree glide slope, with full flaps, and it take 15-18 inches of MP to keep with there and if the engine were to quit, I'd never make the runway.
I went up with two of my other Instructors. They are both light aircraft pilots, and their technique is different. The set up begins on up wind at the mark you want to land at. Gear down, reduce throttle to 10-12" MP, add 10degrees flaps and trim for 70-75KTS, and start down at 700-800+FPM, and turn base. Then you guage what the winds are doing to you then add 20-full flaps and reduce speed to 63kts. Turn final, and then look at your aiming point, which will be well before where you will touch down. Makeing small adjustments with 'some' power keeping the aiming point steady, the decent rat is still 700-800fpm+. Then over your aiming point you flare and should hit your target. Upside to this approach is that you can keep the pattern small by doing this, and your not useing gobs of power to fly it. Also your not relying as much (if at all) on the VASI or PAPI, so your ability to fly in to short fields, or fields that don't have VASI or PAPI is improved.
The down side to this approach is the high rate, and angle of decent. It takes getting used to, and requires practice. I'm sure most passengers wouldn't like it too much.
When it comes to soft field, the first style of the short approach is easy to morph in to a soft field because of the use of the glide slope, and the slower rate of decent, on the second style it requires a timly 'slight' burst of power in flare. Too much power during flare will cause you yto either float, or if you do touch down momentarily, you will bounce back in to the air. (which is how I busted the soft field)
Like I said I knew what I did wrong!:d
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