Student pilot bounces landing - Cessna 172

[MichaelDane1]

Yeah I've done that (Student with a whole 11.2 hrs) its not a good feeling ;(

[cruz1aviator]

everybody giving their advice and talking here like they've never floated or bounced before - especially on their second solo landing! give the guy a break. it happens, that's how you learn. what matters is how you recover. ever saw that porpoised piper video? or was it a mooney? the nose gear collapsed. give your expert advice there...

[barbepark]

i solo'd last week and did fine but today i ballooned like a...balloon!

then 2nd landing i slammed into the ground like a rock, 3rd time a charm (was soooo mad!!!) ...thanks for the video!

[prosey]

You have a Vref speed for a reason, if you were at the correct speed you wouldn't have floated and bounced and floated some more! Probably luck as opposed to judgement then that your first landing was smooth! ; ) As Trek6220 said, if it's looking bad, go around. Definitely no harm in that.

[lejink]

saw a student land when i was a kid.. came in slow and a bit high.. bounced and stalled, came down on the nose wheel which broke.

[lygersarereal]

As long as your alive, you did a good landing.

LOL

[dave0mary]

You don't 'bounce' a landing. The airplane is too fast to land. Slow down - and it will land.

[jayaho1001]

Hmmm.... while you are right... I bounced this one! Let's put it this way, when I first tried to get the wheels to touch the runway, I was too fast to land. The second time when they actually touched I was seriously slow, and that nice thing above my head called a wing, that normally provides lift, was now smashing me and my 2000 pound plane to the runway. :)

[PaulUmbarger]

It happened to me one time too. I just gunned the engines and once I was about twenty feet up, chopped power and let it drift on back down again. i guess it was a surprise headwind that came up out of no where but, in any case, I had a long enough runway to do that and it worked out alright for me. I mean, I got to reuse the plane and everything! LOL!

[eprevhay]

haha nice

on my first (attempted) landing i ballooned like 3 times and then went around.

but now im getting real good at it :D

[john33STEW]

any landing you can crawl

away from.......

[stuka101]

hehe started circuits the other day, 1st landing i bounced the next 2 were great, nice and smooth

[Lackyserbia]

yeah it is not shame for go around , but if u see that u are high every time just go full flaps :))))

[eprevhay]

or u could slip the plane down

my lessons for that are in hour exactly :D

[trek6220]

There's no shame in going around. Never try to salvage a bad landing

[pocopilot]

yep - everyone has done it when they first start out...ya after a while itll be almost second nature to land in regular conditions

[ilikechile]

make sure your approach speed is NO greater than 65kts, and when you start your flare, it should be even less. If you come in too fast, your going to bounce, period.

[RANDYkiller07]

in any landing approach,u have 2 estblish d proper glide attitude(power-off landing),maintain the glide path,if ur coming to fast,ur expected to have a longer level-off,so hold on to the controls,be patient enuf,ur nt goin to bounce.....aim for smooth landing not jst to land the aircraft.. :)

[myosat]

he just needed to pull and hold the yoke a lil longer during the flare then no more ballooning

[Soon2BpiLot2992]

I was the same as you, greased my first landing and smooth 2nd landing, then I had a pretty flat landing. Nothing to be ashamed about just practice makes perfect.

[kmmismyname]

my plane bounced when we laned 2

[kimiles1]

Funny how much difference that missing 180lb in the right seat makes, eh?

[Yoshark777]

I did my first landing today! Set it down with a little bit of a bump but otherwise okay. :D

[urbannibja123]

lol well done m8! xD

[Cris02212]

it was windy

[jayaho1001]

efnosmoke: No... I'm the student pilot! :)

[tealmarlin]

To much speed will make this happen, and landing to flat.

[efnosmoke]

Dont worry, by now you should be doing fine. My landings were really bad, but after practice they are beter than my ex team mates.

[HickoryThornwood]

mine were so much worse then that (esp on my first solo).

[efnosmoke]

Jayaho1001 are you a CFI?

[ormus55]

way too fast.

if you bounce, add some power and land it again.

better still, add full power and go around.

never try to salvage a bad landing.

[efnosmoke]

Log them all....

[mytube1968]

hehe

[darcougar]

yup i did somethin like this last week so i cant really criticize

[mitgolden76]

you can still criticize.. there's a difference between being good with practice, and being good with theory.. why do you think tiger woods has a coach?

[smaxwell30]

hey we've all been there...let the plane settle, you came in to fast and forced it down