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Online Articles:
  
(updated Mar 30, 2022)

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These online articles and videos can really help you improve your landings:
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AOPA article - ‘Aim Small and Miss Small
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Five tips to perfect your landings.
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AOPA article - ‘Training Tip: In the nick of time
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Making good landings is customarily the single most challenging skill for a new pilot to acquire, the path to proficiency paved with instances of floating, bouncing, drifting, tire-screeching sideloads, and go-arounds until finally, it all “clicks.”
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AOPA article - 'Training Tip: Base impulses'
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A student pilot nearing the private pilot practical test and a flight instructor are practicing landings on Runway 33 in a 10-knot crosswind from 240 degrees. Given the choice by the tower of left or right traffic, the student pounces on right traffic, but the CFI requests left turns. What’s the difference?
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This video will help you with your Cross-Wind Landings
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A bounced or firm landing is typically not a hard landing. So, what is a hard landing?
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ASI Safety Video - ASI Safety Tip: Aiming Point
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Having trouble gauging your touchdown point on the runway? Check out this handy trick for helping you stay on target during short final. ASI Safety Tip: Aiming Point teaches a simple technique for touching down at the right place at the right time.
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Video - You Tube - 3 Tips for BETTER Landings
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This video talks about Stablized Approaches, Aiming Points, and help to demonstrate when start your roundout and flare.

It also refers to the following term: "Lindbergh Reference"
The Lindbergh Reference is a practice that can help pilots of small airplanes keep control of their aircraft when they cannot see straight ahead out of the front window. The Lindbergh Reference teaches you to look out of the left-corner of the front window to monitor your position. BE SURE TO ONLY USE YOUR PERIPHERAL VISION - KEEP YOUR EYES FORWARD
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