Thread: The information ain't reaching the top

I'm a newb, I've got about 9 hrs in the ctsw. I flew 150's in the 70's and soloed and solo cross countried but quit. Any how at 53 I decided flying would fill in nicely as a mid life crisis. I understand the roundout, flair but am not seeing my yaw correctly. I can get on the ground, or go around but sometimes my instructor will say more right rudder and I'm thinking left' I feel like things are oppisite what he's saying. I have complete faith in the guy, he's awesome and I've told him I don't know why I question but it feels weird. I have no problems with takeoffs and love the feel of the ctsw in flight but sometimes on short final I correct then correct the correction and am all over the friggin place. Help
I saw somewhere where Charlie tango spoke about his sim. any thoughts?

The seats in the CT are not parallel with each other and each side sees a little different sight picture.
So here are three things you can.
1. When coming in to land think like you are going to put your feet right on top of the runway center line. Keep your legs and feet right on top of the line.
2. While sitting on the ground put the plane straight in line with a line on the ground. Then while sitting in your seat take a little thin strip of tape and put in line with the line on the ground, kind of like a sight. Or two dots one on the bottom of the front window and one about 8" up the window so you can line up the runway center line with these dots when you land.
2. Take the passenger seat which is off slightly and put put one seat rail pin on the inside track in the 4th hole and the outside rail pin in the 5th hole. This offset makes the passenger seat line up more parallel with the other seat.

Thank you for the tips, I actually thought yesterday that the left seat sat crooked in the rails? I will bring dots along on my next lesson. My instructor tells me to keep the line between my feet. If I can line it up I can feel the roundout and flair pretty well I think. I once felt yesterday that I was pointed 45 degrees right in the flare. I don't know what it is.

It just takes a little time and it will fall into place.

A crosshair on the windscreen helps. Some of us just take a long time to get our brains and feet wired together. I still have a hard time with it.

Get used to the more right rudder comment us instructor will say it a bunch. In the landing flare these airplanes have a bunch of adverse yaw. Besides the sight picture I see students tense up on the controls and move them to much, or pull the stick to the right in the flare moving the nose to left from adverse yaw.

Hi goaround !

Had the same problem in my early hours .... did what the guys recommended.

Thought a nice photo of Lough Erne (Co Fermanagh) and the strip on the windscreen would help. We tend to have a regular r to l crosswind at Newtownards so I added a couple of gradations for the approach ! At this stage with the CT your side of the plane is definitely not going to the same place as your passenger .. but I guess that's an Irish thing.

You do eventually stop flying the thing and start wearing it !

John

Thanks for all the tips, I went this morning and was alot more comfortable with my landings, they weren't real pretty but I really am starting to get a feel for it. I didn't try the tape (yet). I talked with my instructor and his suggestions, square my shoulders with the ceterline between my feet and quit watching the nose so much helped alot. I am going to enjoy this plane. Again thanks

Someone aptly said that when you have some flaps in, the CT during the round out feels like you are balancing on a basketball. I am finding that thinking about keeping the wings square in my peripheral vision when I hit ground effect is useful. -WF