Video i shot, thought i would share
 

This is one of my solo students landing at dusk just before we closed things down for the evening.

nice landing, sorry for quality... low light - shot with iphone 3G

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYWAp2Ih-4o

:yeah:

this was his final landing of the evening... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxM2I4pPw7w

he finally decided to get the lights on.

Great landing GR, then I know who to hire as my personal pilot,and the image was good :up:

Well he did a good job... i was standing in the grass which takes very little skill, so you might want to hire him LOL :D

But YOU made a good picture, :yep:

Congrats on your 3,500th post :D

Thank Gr, for your attention, yes time goes by........ :O:

Smooth landing :cool:

So...how well does skill in a flight sim translate to rl flying ability? :D

It actually does contribute to it. Not by a huge margin but at least you already know a bit about what you are doing. My flightsim time helped me with learning how to fly gliders (well, I'm still learning as I almost didn't fly this year because of writing my thesis....and the damn season is next to over already.:damn::damn::damn:).

Flight sim experience helps. But there are some negative habits that can be developed in sims.

I would say an experienced sim pilot is perhaps the equivalent of 10-15 flying hours ahead of a non sim pilot on day one of training.

It's nice when sim pilots come in with an understanding of the instruments and parts of the plane etc.

Lovely landing in the first. Did he bounce in the second or flare a bit just before touchdown? Either which way, good going on the guy. :up: Really cannot be an easy thing to do at all. :salute:

Actually it is quite good. I wouldn't have known if you hadn't said. :sunny:

He did a pretty good landing.:up:

The second landing it appeared to me that he approached at least 5 - 10 knots faster than normal which makes a considerable difference. it was a firm landing on the mains first, and he dropped the nose wheel down a bit quicker than in the first one.

EDIT: i had also moved closer to the touch down zone - so the wheel chirp was probably a lot more pronounced than in the first video where i was further down range.

I'd claim any of those personally. :rock:

Of course i would rather he approached 5-10 knots fast vs. 5-10 knots slow:03:

The weekend of the 23rd is our annual camping trip / fly-in. I'll have lots of great classic airplane pics and videos from that im sure :up:

Aah, that makes sense, I was just wondering because it looked like he touched down at twenty-nine seconds and then lifted briefly before putting down again at thirty-two, either that or he flared a little at twenty-nine to bleed some speed before putting down at thirty-two, hard to tell because of the light and film quality (but even so, it's damn good for an iphone). Either which way, like you say, it's a good landing and you've done well with that one :up:. I was just curious. :DL

Ah, awesome, I remember your pics from last years fly-in.
Agreed on the too fast, better to go a bit faster than to go too slow and either drop in the grass or stall I'd say. They were still very clean landings.
Are there many tail draggers at your field or is it primarily tricycles?

Yes it does look like that actually.

Of course i have the advantage of having stood there... but your assessment of him bleeding speed is correct. He hovered there in "ground effect" for a couple of hundred feet before finally settling in. (I'm standing only about 1,000 ft down the full length of the runway)

a few but not nearly enough.

there is a Cessna 180, a wilga, and a 1946 J3 Cub (restored to immaculate condition which i had the pleasure of flying around a bit) all on my home field.

I'm really gunning to buy an original Piper L4 within the next few years. I would love to hop from field to field in one of those on my way to fly-ins and air shows some day. :yeah:

Aaah, thanks for the confirmation on that, he did well to flare a little bit to bring the speed down. :salute:
Nice line-up of craft there, good to see Cubs around, classic aircraft they are.

A Piper L4...oooh, now that would be a beautiful craft. Lovely visibility (comes with the job) and well made. But will you leave the rockets on? :haha:
The local airshow had some nice aircraft parked up, since it took place at an old USAF base a few people flew in (James May included) rather than go by car.

http://img684.imageshack.us/img684/8440/1004788z.jpg
http://img833.imageshack.us/img833/6247/1004774.jpg
http://img834.imageshack.us/img834/2...781birddog.jpg
http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/8990/1004784l5.jpg
http://img843.imageshack.us/img843/583/1004785.jpg

TBH my backside would have been twitching like a rabbits nose if I were him :o

Yours and mine both mate! :yep:

:DL