Still following the old archaic rules and guesswork ...

‘Still following the old archaic rules and guesswork …’

20.02.2025 , David Jacobson , captain-david-jacobson 0

This testimonial message was received, recently: Does it resonate with you, too?

‘Thank you for enabling me to learn about the round out and flare through your application and also your presentation video.

I am a 60-year-old student pilot from the United States. My prior failures of being able to control my approach and landing were, other than my age and learning ability, attributed to lack of proper execution of “pitch for airspeed and power for altitude” in slow flight ( back of the power curve). It consisted of 10 flying hours of frustration and grief.

I came across your App through a weblink on a blog post and put it to practice yesterday without telling my instructor sitting next to me. For the first time, I did not panic nor frantically move my controls and was also able to maintain alignment with center line. Granted, out of 7 landings I could make it to 5 (prior stats were usually 1 or max 2). None of the landings were bumpy and were really smooth. Imagine if I repeated that for 10 hours, what would have been the improvement overall.

Thank you so much for the treatise. I wish you were able to provide more on the subject of flying. We are still following the old archaic rules and guesswork on our official training manuals.

Warm regards …‘

It is always very gratifying to receive such a warm response and personal experiences, such as this, continue to prove the Jacobson Flare as the world’s foremost and only universal, quantifiable, consistent and unassailable approach and landing training technique. Many student pilots, of all ages and all learning abilities have been so treated, as as this pilot has – and many scrubbed or, at the least, disheartened. That’s so sad and so unnecessary.

With the Trouble-shooting guide in the App, this pilot will be able to self-analyse his own performance and make any necessary corrections to achieve his own 10/10 landing performance rating. I know he can do it and now, he does, too. His joy and his pride were quite evident from his message and I can tell you that it the same pride and joy as I experienced as a flight instructor and airline training captain on light aircraft and DC-9-30 and B737-300/-400/-800s, across the cockpit, from 1987- 2017, when one of my students (GA or airline) would make that same discovery.

You, too, can make that same discovery.

Wishing you many safe landings

Captain David M Jacobson FRAeS MAP

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‘Still following the old archaic rules and guesswork …’