How do perform short field landings for practical test

[MauleSkinner]

Bad decisions are a bigger part of accidents than you will admit. Remember the holes in the swiss cheese only line up because poor decisions made them. I'll tell you now that if the runway is obstructed, or length is an issue, I am NOT going to depend on my accuracy... to many things can go wrong.. a gust, a thermal, an animal, another aircraft etc etc etc.

Of course the interwebsis full of Bob Hoover wannabe's.... I'm not one of them.

Can I land within the 200ft like the FAA says? Sure... I've done it a few times and even had a DPE there to show them in person. But real life I'm a first third of the runway kinda guy (after I determine landing performance)

So how much do you add to the book landing distance before you land on a runway?

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

@FinalApproach you need to be having this back & forth with your CFI. At this point, the internet thing is counterproductive.

Do you realize that some of the people on this thread are not CFIs, me included?

There is obviously something amiss when this pretty simple task is 6 pages long. You’re going to mix stuff up that you hear and confuse yourself, or worse, hurt yourself or damage stuff.

You might be my age or even older, don’t know how old you are, but what I told my now adult kids is - how do you know that the other person on the internet is not out to screw you up for fun? Some of these guys on POA are great real people in person, but how do YOU know that? Takeaway: ask your fkn CFI even if it means paying for 1 hour to sit in a classroom, draw it out, and play with a toy plane.

 

[455 Bravo Uniform]

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Hey, who took away the “round out”!?

 

[Clip4]

Bad decisions are a bigger part of accidents than you will admit. Remember the holes in the swiss cheese only line up because poor decisions made them. I'll tell you now that if the runway is obstructed, or length is an issue, I am NOT going to depend on my accuracy... to many things can go wrong.. a gust, a thermal, an animal, another aircraft etc etc etc.

Of course the interwebsis full of Bob Hoover wannabe's.... I'm not one of them.

Can I land within the 200ft like the FAA says? Sure... I've done it a few times and even had a DPE there to show them in person. But real life I'm a first third of the runway kinda guy (after I determine landing performance)

I encourage you to get additional training with short field landings and risk management.

Accidents don’t happen because bad decisions align like holes in Swiss cheese. The location of holes in Swiss cheese are totally random and don’t change with any decisions.

 

[dmspilot]

Most, if not all, big flight schools and time-building instructors live in backwards-land, where a short field landing actually uses more runway than a normal landing, and "minimal floating" actually means "stretch the float to your touchdown point".

Cessna POH technique, imaginary obstacle over the threshold.