Re: The Differences Between PPLicensing And Learning

Andrey Serbinenko wrote:
During my primary training the biggest difficulty I had was sensing the
proper hight above runway where to begin the flare. I was really stuck there
for almost a month, either flaring too high, or landing flat. My instructor
was pretty much desperate, and I started thinking that I'm perhaps lacking
some physical ability to do that right.
What I did was, I set up MSFS with a projector and a wall-mounted screen in
my room, put the projector far enough to get the image of the exact 1:1
scale of what I see out of cockpit, and set up the plane on a very short
final, perhaps 10-12 seconds before touchdown. I was then practicing
the flare with this setup; I did around fifteen hundred flares in one week.
That helped me tremendously. I'm pretty sure that probably there were
other ways to break this plateau I had, but this one worked for me. I hardly
ever fired MSFS ever since, I got so sick of it :)

Andrey


In rec.aviation.piloting Dudley Henriques <dhenriques@xxxxxxx> wrote:
[...]
part of that opinion by not including that I see no objection at all to the sim being used BEFORE dual commences as well as after solo, so the actual envelope I have always stressed constitutes ommission of the simulator between the first hour of dual instruction and solo. After solo, the sim can again be used and has specific advantages.
[...]

A very simple instructor technique for a student having the problem you had is for the instructor to "fly" the airplane up the runway holding it in the landing attitude just inches off the ground. By doing this, the student gets a long look at the correct visual cue both over the nose and peripherally for the airplane in a landing attitude.
Also, as the airplane is positioned for takeoff and before the throttle is opened, the student should be told to look over the nose and remember that visual cue. This is the cue that will be seen as the aircraft touches down again.
There are many ways in the airplane to solve the problem you had. I would never in a million years allow any student of mine to use MSFS to solve the issue you were having.


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Dudley Henriques
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