Landing Advice...

I am flaring with my left hand (right hand on the throttle), so
probably crank the yoke to the left a bit...

--Dan


P S wrote:
Exactly. Your description of the problem sounded too familiar :-).

Dan wrote:
I think you may be on to something here. So, what you are saying is
that in a calm wind, I might be unconciously adding left alieron in the
flare, and correcting with right rudder...

I think this acutally happens to me _more_ in calm wind situations.


P S wrote:


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.