Student pilot bounces landing - Cessna 172

On my second solo landing, (after a perfect 1st landing I might add), I bounced this one. It wasn't pretty. Thankfully the camera man was far enough away, but watch and you will see me float way to high (at the 13 second mark) which sets me up for a hard bounce (at about 17 seconds). I'm doing much better with my landings now, but you can tell that flying wasn't my day job.

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• solo
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• Cessna
• 172
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• G1000
• D98
• Romeo
• Detroit
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• student
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• bounced
• landing

[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. :)

[jayaho1001]

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

[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...

[lygersarereal]

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

LOL

[MichaelDane1]

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

[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.

[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