TODAY I FLY A CESSNA 172 BY ATTEMPTING A SHORT FIELD LANDING & A TAKEOFF FROM AN UNCONTROLLED FIELD

Описание: Today we try our hand at practicing Short Field Landing and Takeoff on a real short field uncontrolled airfield, Whidbey Airpark, on MSFS 2020.
So what are the steps of a good short field landing? We'll break it down into four phases: approach to landing, clearing an obstacle, touchdown, and rollout.
Approach To Landing
To make a great short field landing, you need to be in complete control of your airspeed and descent rate. When you're stabilized, on speed, and on glide path, you can touch down where you want, prevent your plane from floating down the runway, and stop well before you run out of runway.
All of this starts with your approach.

The Airplane Flying Handbook recommends that you fly a slightly wider-than-normal traffic pattern, so that you have plenty of time to configure your aircraft and make sure you're stabilized on your approach. You don't necessarily need to do this, but it's not a bad idea. The more time you give yourself to get stabilized, the better your landing will (most likely) be.
There are a few more things to consider when flying your pattern: if your POH doesn't suggest a final approach speed, you should fly final approach with full flaps, at 1.3 Vso.
For example, if your plane has a Vso of 47 kts and your POH doesn't list a final approach speed, you'd use, 47 X 1.3 = 61 knots. Fly 61 knots on final, and you'll have a good setup for landing.

In a normal landing, the established procedure is to pick a touchdown point on the runway and an aiming point about 200 feet before that touchdown point. On short final, the pilot should pull engine power to idle and begin their round out and flare about 100 feet before the aiming point (which is about 10-20 feet above the runway), so that by the time the flare is complete they will touch down right around their touchdown point.
In a short-field approach the landing is sometimes called a "spot landing". This means that, as much as possible, the pilot should try to touch down at the aiming point. There are two common techniques to transition to landing on short final. The first is to begin pulling engine power when clear of all obstacles (about 50 feet above the runway), and simultaneously lowering the nose to maintain short-field approach speed. Doing this will momentarily steepen your approach path, which will result in touching down at your original aiming point by the time the round out and flare are complete. The other technique is to integrate the flare into your glide path so that your glide path doesn't change. This technique is more difficult but should also result in touching down right at your aiming point.