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Taming the Bounced Landing

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Key Takeaways:

  • For minor bounces without significant pitch change, apply power to cushion the next touchdown.
  • In the event of a severe bounce, immediately execute a go-around to prevent stalling from rapid airspeed decay in a nose-high attitude.
  • When bouncing in a crosswind, maintain or re-establish crosswind correction; for severe crosswind bounces, always go around.
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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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