Hey cap. Starting on a right downwind abreast of the middle of the strip at 1000850 ft. most small GA aircraft at non-towered airports fly patterns 850AGL feet. Fly paralell to the strip past the threshold broadcast a base leg and throttle back.reduce throttle abeam of your aimpoint on the runway. as soon as your speed is in the white arc, 10 degrees flaps, trim for descent. this should be happening before you pass the threshold. at approx. 70o ft, and at a 45 degree angle to the threshold, turn base. add another 10 degrees flaps, re-trim. Descend to roughly 500 feet. Broadcast and turn final.throttle should lready be reduced. once below 500 ft, you should be stabalised, and final flaps out, no further configuration changes. you should not have to work the throttle here throttle back lower flaps and use throttle as necessary to maintain glideslope. I'll assume a 10 knot crosswind from the right. So "weathercock into the wind. Lower the right wing so the wind can't get under it and maintain forward direction with left rudder.i'm surprised you know these, but you;re mixin a foward slip with a crab. on final, i crab...actually i let the airplane work for me..it weathervanes all by itself, and the prop thrust keeps me headed where i want to go. when i'm about 200 yards from the threshold, i convert to a foward slip. rudder opposite of the wind, then dip the upwind wing to maintain your heading. now you're set up for the landing. keep the aircraft centered using the aielerons, and the nose straight using the rudder. maintain this attitude til the flare, then lift the nose slightly, keeping everything else centered and lined up. When just about to flare kick the rudder back to straighten out for touchdown. Taxi to the parking apron and pull the mixture lever out to kill the motor. shutdown checklist. electrical, nav, com, etc should be off before engine shutdown.
Ok how'd I do
Regards FBClaw
I'm not trained on powered planes btw.
better than i expected.........
but i've added corrections within the body of your text.\
like i said, you did much better than i expected. :aokf or that.
the crosswinds throw a lot of experienced pilots off. most average pilots have trouble with anything above 6 or 7 kts. i can do 5-6 comfortably, up to 8 working a bit, and at 10, i'm sweating.
almost forgot..in a cessna, speeds.....downwind=80-90..my preference is 80, initial descent, 75, base and long final, 70, short final 65, cross the threshold at about 55, aircraft stalls at about 46 with 30 degrees flaps out.
WTG sir!