Dan wrote:
All,

Occasionally, I find myself in the following situation when landing. I
am trying to figure out what I am doing wrong.

I fly over the numbers at the proper airspeed, and on the (VASI)
glideslope. I flare by putting the cowling to the horizon and holding
off unitl touchdown. After touchdown, I find the plane drifting to the
left, while the nose is pointing to the right. Applying further right
rudder seems to result in a squirrley/sliding feeling (not sure if I am
acutally sliding though, just afraid to push it any further). Applying
brakes at anything more than very slight pressure results in skidding.
At this point, I find myself rolling down the runway, unable to slow
down fast enough and trying to control the drift.

This could happen in little to no wind conditions. What am I doing
wrong? I'm not a beginner, but occasionally this happens and I can't
seem to figure it out.

Do I need to....

A. Crank in aggressive alieron to the right.
B. Apply lots of back-pressure to get more weight on the mains to allow
breaking.
C. Something else....?

Dan

A disclaimer first, that I'm a post solo student [P S == Post Solo]. I
have
had similar (opposite) problems after touching down with the nose
pointing to the
left while the plane drifted to the right. My CFI found two things that
I was
doing uncontiously. one is the non-level movement of the yoke when
applying the
back-pressue while rounding out, and in my case, I was over-correcting
my
earlier tendancy of "pulling the yoke downward" action by raising the
left elbow
too much. Then stepped on the left rudder in reflex to "correct" that
-- resulting in
the nose pointing to the left while the plane drifted to the right.
Your problem could be the opposite of mine, i.e. your left elbow was
pulling down the
left alieron, or, maybe as the nose rose, it yawed to the left by the
same reason it
yawed to the left on takeoff with more power, and you used right rudder
to
correct it, instead of very slight right alieron in the round out. If
the later is true,
the wings were not very level before touching down.