I had a lot of landings on the grass. In fact, I had REALLY a lot of landings on the grass. Today, I flew patterns on the aerodrome with a grass strip.
During my flight today, I made many landings. The main takeaway is that I finally feel like I am in control of the airplane, rather than the other way around. I can see where it is going to land and I have proper feedback from the flight controls, allowing me to stabilize my approach. Previously, it was more like trying to aim for some point using all available flight controls. Now, I have to be more precise, since the grass strip is shorter. I was pretty good in theory, but for some reason, it did not help a lot. Possibly the reason is that I mainly concentrated on making instantaneous corrections without building a big picture.
Today, I’ve leveled up. I now analyze my track during the approach and try to keep straight paths as straight as possible and curved paths as smooth as possible. I use trim even in turbulent weather and mainly set the flaps to the desired position for landing earlier, instead of correcting a glide path by using flaps.
I am making progress, even though I am moving slower than I had hoped.
Leave a Reply