...he says, as he then goes on to explain all the coordination required!
Lol, bbbbbut isn't a sideslip uncoordinated? My point is that we talk about coordinated control inputs. We are taught that for sideslips you need to put in aileron and counteract the turning tendency with rudder, make sure for each control input you coordinate with the other control, blah, blah, blah. It's all true, but a student reading or hearing this thinks that he should be concentrating on moving those controls at the same time, that becomes the focus, moving the controls. The real focus needs to be the runway. The controls don't need to move together. Align the nose with the rudder, move the plane onto the runway centerline with the ailerons. Fix one, then fix the other. Eventually as you get more comfortable, you are able to move the controls at the same time.
When I was learning to land I was close to being really good at it, but I hit a plateau, I kept dropping it in. My instructor was coaching me, I'd be in the flare, a foot above the runway, he'd say, "ok, now hold it there, hold it there." Then boom, it would drop in. This happened through about 10 landings, same thing, "hold it there" boom. Finally, we were both aggravated, after the 10th landing, he said to me, " why do you keep doing that, Keep The Nose Up". Then it dawned on me, every time he told me "hold it there", I froze the elevator where it was, I held it there. He wanted me to hold the nose there, big difference. Next landing after that revelation was pretty much a greaser. Ideas, concepts, words matter.
