hitting centerline

The only tip is practice, practice!!! 😉

I posted a similar questions a little while ago and everyone's reply was similar: practice.

yes I am some people here take flight lesson which def. comes in handy when taxing and landing on the center line. Just as the others said we didnt get fs and just magically land and taxy perfectly we had to practice. You will get it soon.

thanks for your help i find that an aiming point in the windscreen helps me most

benbastock wrote:

thanks for your help i find that an aiming point in the windscreen helps me most

Well thats just like flying in vfr conditios. When turning etc you want to look out at the horizon and pick a spot so you wont change headings, and when turning look at horizon so you can see if you are acending or decending. You might of already known that.

benbastock wrote:

i've been flying for ages i am pretty good except all this time i am unable to hit the centerline visually without ils and vor approaches from the cockpit view even with a cessna 172 it is diffficult any tips

- Keep your speed constant, in a 172, aim for 70kts on approach
- Make small movements on the control surfaces
- Leave a few moments before moving the controls again, inertia will ensure a delay between your moving the control surfaces and the aircraft beginning to move.
- Keep a descent rate of around 600fpm
- Don't over compensate on controls - bank or pitch and then look at the result before moving again
- Anticipate movements. If you are banking very slightly, you know this will get worse if left - don't let it! Similarly, if you hit turbulence and you end up in a nose down attitude, you should recognise that your speed will pick up and that pulling back on the stick will have a larger affect.

As has already been said: practice, practice, practice.

Good luck 😎

99jolegg wrote:

benbastock wrote:

i've been flying for ages i am pretty good except all this time i am unable to hit the centerline visually without ils and vor approaches from the cockpit view even with a cessna 172 it is diffficult any tips

- Keep your speed constant, in a 172, aim for 70kts on approach
- Make small movements on the control surfaces
- Leave a few moments before moving the controls again, inertia will ensure a delay between your moving the control surfaces and the aircraft beginning to move.
- Keep a descent rate of around 600fpm
- Don't over compensate on controls - bank or pitch and then look at the result before moving again
- Anticipate movements. If you are banking very slightly, you know this will get worse if left - don't let it! Similarly, if you hit turbulence and you end up in a nose down attitude, you should recognise that your speed will pick up and that pulling back on the stick will have a larger affect.

As has already been said: practice, practice, practice.

Good luck 😎

Every single thing 99jolegg said was absoloutely correct 😉

benbastock wrote:

thanks for your help i find that an aiming point in the windscreen helps me most

just make sure the runway is in the center of your screen on aproach and 90% of the time you will land on the center line. but then again, easier said than done

one word.... crosswind.

ugh.