Author: David Jacobson

Forthcoming JF Presentation to Soar Aviation, YMMB Moorabbin Airport Sat 6 December 2014

01.12.2014 , news

Following on from a visit and some discussion (during which it was quickly established that Senior Instructor, Koushik Panchangam, was already a staunch advocate), a presentation of the Jacobson Flare App for the iPad is very timely.

Principally for Soar Aviation’s staff and clients, other interested pilots wishing to attend should contact Soar on 03 9587 5020 for further details. Captain David Jacobson will share his nearly 50 years of aeronautical experience, before presenting the Jacobson Flare. See <https://www.jacobsonflare.com>

 

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Wishing you many safe landings

 

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

 

Would you care to experience that unsurpassed sense of accomplishment, derived from executing consistently beautiful landings, more often?

For starters, Download the FREE Jacobson Flare LITE, our no fuss/no frills introduction. Here we demonstrate, step by step, the application of the Jacobson Flare on a typical grass airstrip at Porepunkah, YPOK.

 

We invite you to browse the consistently positive comments on our Testimonials page. Many pilots, of all levels of experience, have downloaded our Apps. Read about their own experiences with the Jacobson Flare technique and the App.

Then download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare app – for iOS. You’re already possibly paying $300+/hour to hire an aeroplane: You’ll recover the cost of the app, in just ONE LESS-NEEDED CIRCUIT. Moreover, you’ll have an invaluable reference tool, throughout your entire life in aviation.

Download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare App for iOS devices now.

 

We invite you, also, to review our new, FREE companion app,

offering a convenient way of staying abreast of our latest blogs.

 

Download the Jacobson Flare NEWS App for iOS devices now.

Second JF Presentation to Melbourne Flight Training, YMMB Moorabbin Airport – 28 November 2014

29.11.2014 , news

Thanks again to Glen, Ermin and the team at Melbourne Flight Training (MFT) at YMMB Moorabbin Airport, for the opportunity to present the Jacobson Flare to some more staff instructors and students, in formal and other focussed discussions. The Company even provided an aircraft for a couple of instructors to gain some one on one experience in applying the JF and the response to these presentations and discussions has been sensational.

Any educational institute has a responsibility to its students to regularly review what they teach and how they teach it and MFT, have welcomed me warmly, perfectly willing to look at something different – something that challenges 100 years of inertia.

In nearly thirty years of introducing the Jacobson Flare to a wide range of flight training organisations, the enthusiastic response of MFT instructors is a standout.

Wishing you many safe landings

 

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

 

Would you care to experience that unsurpassed sense of accomplishment, derived from executing consistently beautiful landings, more often?

For starters, Download the FREE Jacobson Flare LITE, our no fuss/no frills introduction. Here we demonstrate, step by step, the application of the Jacobson Flare on a typical grass airstrip at Porepunkah, YPOK.

 

We invite you to browse the consistently positive comments on our Testimonials page. Many pilots, of all levels of experience, have downloaded our Apps. Read about their own experiences with the Jacobson Flare technique and the App.

Then download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare app – for iOS. You’re already possibly paying $300+/hour to hire an aeroplane: You’ll recover the cost of the app, in just ONE LESS-NEEDED CIRCUIT. Moreover, you’ll have an invaluable reference tool, throughout your entire life in aviation.

Download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare App for iOS devices now.

 

We invite you, also, to review our new, FREE companion app,

offering a convenient way of staying abreast of our latest blogs.

 

Download the Jacobson Flare NEWS App for iOS devices now.

First JF Presentation to Melbourne Flight Training, Moorabbin Airport YMMB – 20 November 2014

22.11.2014 , news

Thanks to Glen Buckley and the team at Melbourne Flight Training, at YMMB Moorabbin Airport, VIC, Australia, for the opportunity to present the Jacobson Flare to more than thirty staff and student pilots, last Thursday 20 November 2014.

There was keen interest shown, especially by a very enthusiastic group of young instructors, already actively seeking a more fact-based landing training technique to raise competency levels: their own, as dedicated instructors and their students’, to give them increased skill and confidence in their own abilities.

Nothing increases confidence in performing a task, like increased confidence in one’s own knowledge base.

There has been an immediate result – one student, a refugee from two previous flight training organisations and still having landing issues, was introduced to the Jacobson Flare by her instructor and applied it, successfully and consistently, at YMEN Essendon (with its height illusion-inducing 45m wide runways), YOLA Colac and back at YMMB Moorabbin.

This revelation has been noted many times before – the improvement is immediate, because the student now has a visible instructive model, not a loose, non-descript set of personal opinions, recycled for 100 years.

We look forward to developing the relationship with Melbourne Flight Training.

 

Wishing you many safe landings

 

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

 

Would you care to experience that unsurpassed sense of accomplishment, derived from executing consistently beautiful landings, more often?

For starters, Download the FREE Jacobson Flare LITE, our no fuss/no frills introduction. Here we demonstrate, step by step, the application of the Jacobson Flare on a typical grass airstrip at Porepunkah, YPOK.

 

We invite you to browse the consistently positive comments on our Testimonials page. Many pilots, of all levels of experience, have downloaded our Apps. Read about their own experiences with the Jacobson Flare technique and the App.

Then download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare app – for iOS. You’re already possibly paying $300+/hour to hire an aeroplane: You’ll recover the cost of the app, in just ONE LESS-NEEDED CIRCUIT. Moreover, you’ll have an invaluable reference tool, throughout your entire life in aviation.

Download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare App for iOS devices now.

 

We invite you, also, to review our new, FREE companion app,

offering a convenient way of staying abreast of our latest blogs.

 

Download the Jacobson Flare NEWS App for iOS devices now.

“… finally blinded by the light…” Mike Bernays

07.11.2014 , what-other-pilots-say

“… finally blinded by the light…” Mike Bernays

I read about your new iPad app on the Jacobson Flare last week. I am amazed that I had never heard of you before now. I’ve been flying since 1979 when I learnt to fly at Camden in NSW. I’ve owned a B model twin Comanche VH-ZOO for the last 25 years. At first I was a little skeptical about whether I would gain much from the app (its not often that I pay $30 for apps) but decided to take a chance with it when curiosity got the better of me.

I was gob smacked about how professionally this has been put together. At first I got a little bogged down in the trigonometry of the whole thing but after a couple of hours I was finally blinded by the light especially after looking at the beautiful videos.

My aircraft is renowned for its difficulty to do repeatable greaser landings – I don’t know how many times over the years when telling someone about the fact that I own a Twin Comanche the first response has often been “but how do you go landing it?” Your philosophical discussion at the beginning about how we are all taught “attitude controls airspeed” and “power controls the rate of descent” before we even get to the flare was fascinating as well. I seem to remember it was even taught as dogma in instructor rating courses – to get the rating you had to sprout the dogma.

Now I have learnt how to land a PA30 fairly consistently over the years yet I could never explain in great detail to someone else how I do it, and I’ve just realized that I have been looking in the right places during the flare probably for many years now – I’ve been intuitively doing what you explain so eloquently for a long time now! I went out for a fly and some circuits today to prove it to myself.

I struggled with landings when I first learnt to fly – the instructor just couldn’t explain to me where to look. I’ve always felt sorry for people who don’t get it and don’t/can’t teach themselves intuitively. I don’t believe I’ve ever seen a book on flare technique before, either.

I thank you for your amazing explanation of the technique of flaring, a crucial few second duration manoeuvre which occupies such a small portion of any flight but has the ability to either give us a great sense of pride if pulled off well or embarrassment frustration and disappointment if not.

Thanks for such a great tool.

Mike Bernays
Veterinary Ophthalmologist
Tarragindi QLD Australia

 

Wishing you many safe landings

 

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

 

Would you care to experience that unsurpassed sense of accomplishment, derived from executing consistently beautiful landings, more often?

For starters, Download the FREE Jacobson Flare LITE, our no fuss/no frills introduction. Here we demonstrate, step by step, the application of the Jacobson Flare on a typical grass airstrip at Porepunkah, YPOK.

 

We invite you to browse the consistently positive comments on our Testimonials page. Many pilots, of all levels of experience, have downloaded our Apps. Read about their own experiences with the Jacobson Flare technique and the App.

Then download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare app – for iOS. You’re already possibly paying $300+/hour to hire an aeroplane: You’ll recover the cost of the app, in just ONE LESS-NEEDED CIRCUIT. Moreover, you’ll have an invaluable reference tool, throughout your entire life in aviation.

Download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare App for iOS devices now.

 

We invite you, also, to review our new, FREE companion app,

offering a convenient way of staying abreast of our latest blogs.

 

Download the Jacobson Flare NEWS App for iOS devices now.

A380 landings with The Jacobson Flare

“…improving the landing standards and results for all pilots.” – Jamie Durrant

01.11.2014 , what-other-pilots-say

“Not a day goes by without thinking what a great achievement it was having helped David Jacobson to develop The Jacobson Flare app for iPad.

It is a success in both personal growth and with the knowledge that this very powerful landing and flare training tool is yet again improving the landing training standards and results for all pilots.”

Jamie Durrant

Essentials Magazine & Multimedia

Benalla, VIC, Australia

 

Wishing you many safe landings

 

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

 

Would you care to experience that unsurpassed sense of accomplishment, derived from executing consistently beautiful landings, more often?

For starters, Download the FREE Jacobson Flare LITE, our no fuss/no frills introduction. Here we demonstrate, step by step, the application of the Jacobson Flare on a typical grass airstrip at Porepunkah, YPOK.

 

We invite you to browse the consistently positive comments on our Testimonials page. Many pilots, of all levels of experience, have downloaded our Apps. Read about their own experiences with the Jacobson Flare technique and the App.

Then download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare app – for iOS. You’re already possibly paying $300+/hour to hire an aeroplane: You’ll recover the cost of the app, in just ONE LESS-NEEDED CIRCUIT. Moreover, you’ll have an invaluable reference tool, throughout your entire life in aviation.

Download the COMPLETE Jacobson Flare App for iOS devices now.

 

We invite you, also, to review our new, FREE companion app,

offering a convenient way of staying abreast of our latest blogs.

 

Download the Jacobson Flare NEWS App for iOS devices now.