Rodney

John - Thank you for your question. We all land our airplanes using visual "clues" or observations from the cockpit. In the app, Mr Jacobson goes into very specific detail on the flare maneuver. However, he does start with the approach to the runway. He tells you in very specific terms what are the visual clues you need to employ and use on the approach to the runway. And I mean it is specific - there is no ambiguity. When it gets to the flare - he does two things. One - using visual references - he tells you exactly when to start the flare, and then Two - he tells you specific visual clues to execute the rate of the flare. If your interested - he goes into the math and principles behind the technique - but most important: what are the visual clues - when to flare - and the visual clues used during the flare. The thing that has helped me the most is knowing exactly when to flare and exactly what to do in the next 4-6 seconds from the flare to the touchdown. In my first post I apologize if I sounded so excited - but this has been a total eureka moment for me in my flying journey. I imagine if Coronado had discovered the Seven Cities of Gold he would have gotten down off his horse n whooped and hollered. I feel the same way. AGLyme - I used to fly in Arizona. Between Phoenix and Flagstaff there is an airport at Sedona. Locally - it's called the USS Sedona - like an aircraft carrier. It is located right on top of a mesa with steep drops on each end of the runway. I think your airport manager is very wise in telling you to land 1/3 of the way down the runway. I know a guy that - after they landed - a gust flipped their Cherokee over. Okent - let's get together. Are you building a nose or taildragger? I'm just a few minutes from Durant and would love to see your airplane. We can get together and go flying too. Would love to give you and your buddy some more Kitfox time before you fly your bird. My email is: Stinson97502@gmail.com Regards Rodney

Warmi - this is not magic - it is mathematics. Of course you still have to fly the airplane and account for all the variables on landing. Just from my own experience, in 50 years of flying - no one ever told me or taught me exactly how to manage the flair. Mostly it was hold off and hope. I too was taught to use an aiming point to get to the runway. But that only got me to the runway - it does not give one a precise method of knowing when and how to flare. As Mr. Jacobson said - all the books etc tell you what to do - but not how to do it. Ed - Your photos are just awesome. Wish I hand a eye for photography like you do. It must be a gift. I know there are lots of you guys that are not having any challenge in flaring and gently meeting the runway. My only goal here is to pass along, to those of you that are having trouble in flaring and meeting the runway - a precise method that has really helped me. Obviously, if your not experiencing any problems, you don't need any help or education in this area. For the rest of us - this is a valuable educational aid. Regards Rodney

I have always had trouble with landing. One day I'd grease it on and then the next day bounce it in. Didn't matter what airplane I flew. In all my years of flying I could never find a method by which I could consistently, repeatedly perform really good landings. And no instructor I have ever flown with could tell me how. It was the old joke of "There are three rules to making consistently good landings - unfortunately no one knows what they are." Well now I know what the rules are - they do exist in a clear easy to understand mathematical model that everyone can apply. - No - you don't need your calculator on final! Full disclosure here - I'm a Kitfox 7 pilot, but I like hanging around your space cause there is just a lot of good information here. Especially enjoy soaking up all the wisdom Roger has on the Rotax engine. Went to the Page Fly-in several years back and my wife and I had a great time. I flew my Kitfox for five years as a nose-gear airplane, but just recently converted it to a taildragger with big tires. I had to do something to learn how to land a tail dragger without continually bouncing down the runway. It's embarrassing when the guys at the airport get out their lawn chairs - pop a few beers and start taking bets on how many times your going to bounce on landing - or when the inevitable ground loop will happen. Until I learned this method - I will admit I put on a pretty good show. I talked to most of the tailwheel pilots around my airport - talked to one of the pro pilots that fly a Beech C90 for medivac - he also has a Whitman Tailwind - but none of them really helped me. So I started searching books and the internet. I finally found this YouTube video - www.youtube.com/watch?v=cv3ZSHjt8fs The gentleman is a retired airline pilot from Australia. In the video, he discusses the concept of the method - but does not tell you actually how to do it. There is an app that can be downloaded to your Iphone or Ipad that goes into all the detail of how to perform the Jacobson Flare. I think it was about $40 - or so. It works. It''s the best money I have ever spent Believe it or not - it gives you a mathematically based procedure that will work on any airplane - from a LSA to an Airbus 380. In fact, there is a video of a dude landing a 380 - and you absolutely cannot tell when the airplane's landing gear touches the concrete. It's the most perfect landing I've ever seen. I'm passing this information on because it has made a huge difference in my landings. I don't even worry about my peripheral vision, which at 72 has deteriorated quite a bit. I don't need it anymore. I now have a concrete set of rules to apply to landing an airplane. No guessing. I have no financial interest here - just an interest in passing along to other pilots a technique that will actually work for you just like it works for me. I really find it so strange that I have never heard of this before now, never read it in any magazine nor have run into any individual that pointed me to this technique. Be prepared to change how you think about landing. No more "Elevator controls airspeed and throttle controls rate of decent." That will get you to the runway - but it won't do anything to help you know when to flare. With the Jacobson Flare - you will know exactly when too flare and how to finish the landing. Be prepared to spend a few hours practicing. It's hard to break old habits, but after a few hours of practice, you get it - and it just becomes natural. I was out this afternoon practicing crosswind landings. After about the third TnG, I realized I wasn't even consciously applying correction for the crosswind - as long as I concentrated on applying the technique - the correction just seemed to be automatic. I'm also discovering that as I learn to control the energy of the airplane - I am finding out I can pick out where on the runway I want to land. I picked out the numbers as a target - and landed the airplane and stopped with easy braking well before I hit the thousand foot marker. I wasn't really trying to do a short field landing - it just kinda happened. For those of you that are struggling with landings - please try this. I would love to hear back from you and see if it has helped you as much as it did me. Regards Rodney

Well if Garmin is the only one that can read the information from the transponder, doesn’t that make the FAA in violation of their patent ??