I am a pilot trainee, the landing part i am being sick of it. how could i feel professional with that?

Question

i feel bad when i see the localizer

i think about turboulance

i thionk about gusty winds

i think about nose wheel touch down then bounce.

i am good with other manouevers but i dont want to be terminated for the sake of landing from my school.

Answer 1

Everyone here is giving you "how to advice" it seems. Let me tell you a story when I was in my cross country  lab. I was flying from MBT to M83 (TN-AL) early in the morning. It was clear and smooth, all the while getting flight following from Memphis center. The lady came on the radios announcing an airmet for turbulence. This was the first time I would encounter turbulence alone in the cockpit. I wasnt scared until I got rocked non stop. I started sweating and before you know it, I was hyperventilating. I took the necessary precautions, calmed down, opened a vent or two, turned around and landed in Fayetteville. My landing was absolutely HORRIBLE. I bounced with a slight crosswind and almost overloaded the gear. I consider myself to be a good pilot, barking the tires almost every time I land. But that day was different. I parked, got out of the plane, and collected myself. Once I got back in I flew back no problem. The moral of the story is that it is all about relaxing. Even though I didnt like that experience it taught me that if you let your nerves get to you then thats when you will have an accident. If you think of a relaxed mindset as proactive then you will be less likely to mess things up in the air. I am now a CFI and I wouldnt be here if my bad days got the best of me. Dont quit man, there is no such thing as a natural-born pilot (c.yeager) Sky safely

Answer 2

Then you don't need to be a pilot. Go sit in a 8 by 8 office room all day. Then will you complain?

Answer 3

Surely turbulence is just a part of flying? Why are you putting yourself through the training if you can't handle the landing?

Perhaps you need to spend a lot more time in the simulator, practicing getting comfortable with landings before you attempt them in the aircraft.

You have to concentrate 100% on getting the aircraft down, rather than allowing yourself to be distracted by winds.

Good luck

Mac x

Answer 4

If you want to fly, you've got to learn to land.  Deal with it or find another profession

Answer 5

Mesh -

Are you trimming the aircraft ? All the time? If you are fighting the controls on final because you have lowered the flaps and reduced airspeed and have not trimmed out those effects, then you will be sweating out every approach.

You should have a light touch on the controls. If you are squeezing the yoke like crazy, due to either nerves or inadequate trimming, then you cannot react properly as is needed to get through details like turbulence, crosswinds, etc which are sort of gonna be there all the time.

Relax and enjoy it. It's fun once you take it easy. Good Luck.

Answer 6

Then suck it up and land the frigging airplane. Jeez, do you want to fly or not. Quit whining and fly.

Answer 7

A bunch of jerks answering this one (with a few exceptions.)

Try breaking down the workload into steps or stages.

You shouldn't obsess about any of that.  "Hangar fly" each

lesson before and after (if you can) when you have time to

analyze each decision.  You may remember that your

instructor answered your question earlier and you didn't pick

up on it back then.  This is common because they throw a

huge amount of information at you in a short time.  Homework

means more than book work.  Reason through every aspect

of every lesson (air and ground) until its automatic to you.  If

you need help, ask for it!  You're paying them to teach you,

you're not paying for ONLY the privilege of flying their airplane

Claim the instruction you're paying for!

Don't focus on the whole localizer...focus on the centerline of

the localizer.  If you're bouncing your landings, quit trying to

force the airplane to land.  Fly it to the surface then bleed off

airspeed until it "wants" to land.  If it doesn't happen soon

enough, go around and do it again.  There's no shame in going around.  If you go around from ground effect, no one

is likely to notice anyway.  Stick with it, it will all come

together.

Answer 8

If you really want to feel good about your landings, take a break from your 'normal training' and get some instruction in a tail-wheel airplane.  It will feel totally different, but you will learn landings.  After a few hours of those landings, you will have full confidence in your ability to land in a tri-gear airplane.

Answer 9

Why don't you think about SPELL CHECK...( loser)

          Gotta Fly...

                             Mike & "Jaz" in MN

PS  I LOVE LANDING...( Flying & Take-off too )

Answer 10

Your new at this so be patient.  It's also difficult because you are in a constant state of evaluation from your instructor.  I promise you that you will learn more on your first solo then all of the previous flights.  Even experienced pilots s***w up a landing every now and then.  We've just learned to self-evaluate, compartmentalize and move on.  Eventually, after several hundred landings, you will not even have to think about landing.  It will just come natural. I promise.  Give yourself a chance.

Answer 11

at the begining it was so hard to me as well, but now i can land wile listining to music and smoking,,,   so easy   just follow these steps,,

first try finding a landing field with papi or vasi lights  it easier and you feel safer,,   heres what you have to do,,,,

first thing and first thing is reduce power, hold the altitude by raising the nose till your recomended aproach speed..  when you get that speed hold the nose no more further since speed will drop more, just lower the nose slightly so that youll maintain your aproach speed...  now guess what   you are decending,,,,,   if your approach speed is seventy knots then have a rate of decent wich is about 350 ft per minute,,,   this is the fiest thing you must do regardless of how high or low you are,,   remember this is a must do step....  now look at the papi or vasi lights,,  if your high,,  just reduce the power a bit and lower the nose so that u maintane your speed,,,  as soon as you get the correcet lights on the papi indicator, increse power slightly and raise the nose to maintane speed and rate of decent,,,  you must reach the threashold point perfecltly if you do this simple step...   assuming you were low,   just do the opposit,,   increase power slightly and raise the nose to maintain speed,,  what happens??   your rate of secent decreased ...  mantain this untill your intercept the papi lights then reduce the power slighly and lower the nose to maintain speed,,,,   practice this simple steps    and youlll start landing without thinking   it will become a part of you,,,  like breathing,,,,,   trust me   and most important  trust your self     you will make it,,,   good luck,,,,,    when you want to discuss flaps on approach   just email me      good luck

Answer 12

Just keep flying around till you run out of fuel. The plane will then land itself. And you will probably never have to confront the problem ever again.