Runway 18

Last night, I stayed in the pattern alternating between soft and short field landings.  Basically a soft field landing is landing on a, well, soft field.  The technique is a bit different.  What you are trying to avoid on a soft field landing is the ground/grass/mud grabbing on to your tire and slinging the plane.  So you try to come in flat, add a smidge of power in ground effect and lightly come down.  Short field technique is landing on a short field.  My home airport is 2420′ in length, and I was stopping the plane in half that (prior to the mid-field marking), so that was pretty good.  I just need more practice…more reps.  It became easier with each one.

My next flight is a mock-FAA checkride.  Should be interesting.  I will be basically flying the route I’ll be flying on my checkride, so that’s good…

~ Brian

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Total hours:  64.1