Learn to Fly - Airplane landing for pilot training

On behalf of Expert Village, my name is Rodney Fielitz. I'm a certified flight instructor in Cottonwood, AZ and I'm here to give you the basics of what it takes to become a pilot. As we come into the airport we enter at a forty-five degree angle. The reason we enter at a forty-five degree angle, its uncontrolled airport, so we have separation between other airplanes, but I come into the airport once I get to a point where I know I'm close enough, then I turn down wind. Preferably the wind will be inner head or a nose before we land; then again we already know the length is going to be a tail width. We parallel the runway and we come in, even the numbers, we bring our power back and we set ourselves up for a landing. By doing so I bring the power back and I'll also start slowing my air speed down. My air speed for landing is about eighty-five out here, eighty on crosswind, and about seventy-five on final. So when I come out here again it's all part of the judgment that we teach you. Once the angle to the runway over here, can you see the runway. Once the angle to the runway, what I want to do is make my turn so when I come in I'm not over shooting or undershooting the runway and I'm lined up right with the runway. Now again the wind is a little bit out of the southeast, so it did blow me a little bit. I'm going to bring my power back, going to bring my flaps in and also that tail wind is going to blow me down the runway and I'm a little high because of the tail wind again. So you just got to kind of ride it out, it will eventually come on down and you bring it in and line it up to the runway. Let her settle down, slow down and bring her in nice and smooth, little bit too much. We hit the ground. That's a disadvantage's of landing with a tail wind and that's what happens. So we safely made it on the ground one more time. Tail wind? Pushes you down the runway, you waste a lot of runway.