Where do you look when landing a plane?

Finally, don't look immediately ahead of the airplane while landing, but farther down the runway. Pilots who don't look down the runway sometimes fail to flare at all, or flare too high. Brown suggests that pilots try to be stabilized at 300 feet agl.



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The question you ask may seem very simple, and the actual answer is very simple. Pilots always land on the centerline by LOOKING THROUGH THE WINDSHIELD and steering their aircraft to touch down on the runway centerline.

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I do look down the runway during the flare to give a good feel for the ROD from your peripheral vision. You will soon realise that if you have a landing which is a little firmer than you wanted or floats a bit 9 times out of 10 you cant remember looking down the runway.

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' Company policy dictates that low visibility landings must use the aircraft's automated systems that interact with the airport's instrument landing system. This is the array of metal poles at the end of a runway that generate a radio beam for aircraft to follow.

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The higher intensity of aircraft noise than that of other sound sources leads to the development of noise-induced hearing loss in pilots.

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While rain has a very slim chance of canceling a flight, there can be a minor chance that rain will delay it. Rain is just water, no matter the pressure. Modern aircraft can generate lift regardless of the heaviness of the rain. Planes can and will take off and land in the rain.

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