Sydney night flight & landing bankstown YSBK cessna 172 NVFR

My first night flight in the Cessna 172 single engine 4 seater. The last of civil twilight disappeared as we crossed the blue mountains. The approach over the Sydney basin into Bankstown Airport (YSBK, Sydney, Australia) was conducted at night (NVFR). I flared too high in the landing and it was quite firm.

Bankstown Airport Night Landing Cessna 172

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• NVFR
• night
• flight
• landing
• final
• approach
• Bankstown
• YSBK
• Australia
• cessna
• 172
• airplane
• C172
• PAPI

[ninoskanna]

Gee NVFR is hard!! I am very familiar with visual flight around Sydney - by day. Night is a different kettle of fish. I presume you are guided by navaids.

Anyway, with the approach, I guess you will get used to it, but the high flare is often caused by the illusion that you are ready to flare because you are relying on the lights...and not on the ground itself. If you use the ilghts as a guide, rather than as a substitute for the ground, you will do fine.

[kerravon42]

NVFR is tricky for sure. I still have much to learn. Yes, the navigation is mainly with Navaids. You sketch a "mud map" on white paper with the route, key navaids and other points of interest because its hard to read the maps under the red light. I rely on the GPS a fair bit. just completed 5 hours in command in the circuit at night so now I know how right your advice is regarding using the lights to judge the flare height!

Adios.

[kerravon42]

just ppl at the moment. almost completed NVFR and studying for multi-engine and instrument rating now

[CPTDJB]

Yah, Stalling too high at night is a common mistake. My instructor always said 2 things, 1) When you take off note how high in the windows the runway lights are as this will give you a reference or 2) If flying into unknown fields, note the runway width and imagine this , the runway lights should feel as if they're around your ears... unless the runway is REALY narrow (as in Warnervale)

[jl49lo]

Nice vid, what's the music?

[leon6266]

nice dude! u must be doing ur cpl if im right

[ramio1983]

Pretty trippy, but cool nevertheless. I like watching planes land from down at the airport sometimes.

[airbus94]

nice landing what ratings do you have? and are you a private or a commercial pilot