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Taming the Bounced Landing

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Key Takeaways:

  • For minor bounces, apply power to cushion the subsequent touchdown and complete the landing.
  • Severe bounces require an immediate go-around, adding full power and maintaining directional control, to prevent a stall from rapidly decaying airspeed.
  • When a bounce occurs in a crosswind, immediately re-establish crosswind correction to prevent drifting, and execute a go-around if the bounce is severe.
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It’s safe to assume that at some point during your training — maybe at several points — you bounced the landing on touchdown. We all know that corrective action for a bounce — depending on its severity — is the same for ballooning. When the bounce is minor and there’s no extreme change in the airplane’s pitch attitude, a subsequent landing can be made after the bounce by applying enough power to cushion the next (and hopefully last) touchdown.

But what about when a bounce is severe? Or when a bounce occurs in a crosswind? What are we to do in these cases?

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