Solo STOL

Thursday, June 04, 2009

Length: 1.2 hours
Total Time: 33.8 hours

This was my solo STOL flight. My takeoffs were just fine, but my landings were a bit long.

I practiced more short field landings than soft. The main difference is that a short field landing requires hard breaking to reduce the amount of runway used. A soft field landing focuses on reducing the amount of weight on the wheels during rollout.

Although I was fine during my dual time, my solo time was a bit sloppy. This may be because I've only been using 20° of flaps during 'normal' landings opposed to 30° or 40° (on the 172M/N). Since I'm going to start and use full flaps for all landings, this will only allow me more practice with lower speed & increased glide angle landings.

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