When I was instructing full time a few years back I found the hardest
think for a student pilot to learn (besides xwind landings) was how to
judge flare height. Too high and your airspeed bleeds off with an
increasing descent rate = a buttbuster of a landing. Too low and you
risk landing on the nosewheel. Ouch. With about 15 hrs in the older
Rotax powered Katana I recall that plane would float forever if your
airspeed in the flare was too high. That plane was essentially an 80hp
ultralight IMHO. The thing to remember is nobody got it nailed after
only 9 landings. Keep at it.


wrote:
I'm a new student learning with a DA-20. Got most things mastered
except for the landings...most important, no? haha
Seems that most of my landings and I have only tried 9 times thus far
are not very well executed. My CFI sez that I am doing two things
wrong:
1) I am flaring too late.