Bush Pilot Technique Cessna 172 Landing on Short Field

i would like to do this in real life

That’s cool. I had some one send this video to me in the comments on my video where I tested out this technique. It definitely works!

Only issue is pulling flaps like that, while it works perfectly...may make a student pilot fail a checkride.....

Not sure if I missed it, but how long is the runway?

Nice David Clamps 🫤🫤🥴

Hello, Student pilot here. When you changed your mind and decided to cross mid-field, is there any reason you didn't tear-drop into the left downwind for RWY18?

Don’t ever focus excessively on a smooth touchdown. Far more important to do as you did to have the airplane on speed, on centerline, on glide slope and stabilized.

holy molly, thats a short runway. good job!

twin-moron alarm ! tröt tröt tröt haha if I see them need to laugh. would land there with a 737. thats nothing but they need already each of their brain cells. typical american low brainers. 🤣🤣🤣

Awesome landing btw

Are you guys brothers?

Busy airspace and you didn't once lift a wing to check for traffic before turning. Then the "360 for spacing, " without lifting the wing, and then hearing the guy behind you doing the same... I know I come off like some asshole on the internet, I'm sorry for that. Also, if you can't be bothered to lift a wing, don't be so disparaging about non-radio Cubs.

How did us old guys ever survive without a radio, a big clunky headset and no GPS all in tail draggers

Too flat approach, for me.

Meow 😸

Twins?

great greaser...

no ground control?

Bush pilots would have landed sideways on the runway........

where have ya been?

The cutting flaps in the flare trick. I learned it in 1996.

Why didn’t he pick 18 from the beginning since everyone were screaming for 18??? Bad initial judgment. Always learn from the traffic on the ground. If majority doing the same thing, then don’t be the smarty one

Same glasses.

Did I misunderstood or some people do left-hand circuit patterns, while others do right-hand, simultaneously? This is mad. One more reason to do overhead joins at 1500.

Taildraggers with no radios??? Don’t hear us saying negative things about you tri gear guys lol hahaha just bugging ....

Retracting the flaps over the runway threshold? Is that a thing? I've never heard of it.

The active was 180, why use 360? You planned for 360 and was late changing.

Great video. Did you land harder than expected because you pulled flaps in your flare?

Can I land a Cessna on a 170m strip of grass AKA my high school field

Great video

So where were the tips lol

It's a great technique but if I did that at my flight school, they would probably be fighting the urge to beat the living crap out of me lol. They want us to go by their book exactly. I'll mess around with it on my free time

Would be cool to know what airfield that is? Awsome vid fellows!

Are you twins? :)

I learned that "Cutting Flaps In The Flare" technique over 25 years ago and use it to avoid overshooting the landing spot maybe hundreds of times. And I taught it to many as a CFI. iF You dont know the technique, then dont say something you cannot do is wrong.
The ones that critic that trick are the ones that cannot do it right and come up with lies for others not to do it. They cannot do it- So you should not do it too. The dam Clumpsy or coward complaining about better pilots doing maneuvers they Clods cannot do. It is just Jerky Jealousy. Flaps in the flare are mostly lift due ground effect, cutting them saves time and tires too.

Thanks for sharing

The guy with the glass and dark hair may have more experience then the other guy.

where is the short field...? 😏

I don’t get it. Can’t you just do a simple over head rejoin?

You dudes related?

I enjoyed that.

Great video. Showed lots of real world scenarios and an insight into the pilots' thoughts and the RT etc. A busy fly-in on a small strip can be challenging.

As an onlooker, could that finals have been flown higher then a side slip in to bleed off height and energy?

The landing looked safe and the approach grass looked free from obstructions and almost landable - I'm trying to visualize a side slip type approach though.

3-point landing

There are as many opinions here as there are pilots, as always! My two cents on most of the comments: 1) flaps up in the flare- Cessna's electric flaps take their time to retract (I much preferred the old manual ones.) So, on a short field- they will have more effective wheel braking sooner, and in the event of a go around the flaps will be closer to the desired position. So Although I don't think I've ever done it, I wouldn't criticize it. 2) Engine failure- this engine got them all the way through the flight. Unless fuel or carb ice, it's not likely to quit on final. If it does- best glide and land in the grass before the threshold. Obstacles before the threshold? Clear them and slip it in. Nice video guys.

Since when did raising the flaps in the flair become part of the short field landing. That’s quite a dangerous technique bud considering the already slow approach speed. I’ve seen retracting flaps during the rollout which is still a questionable technique but never in the flair.

Short field should stall plane right at numbers...My opinion..but it was a good landing

No that is not a good approach at all in any aircraft little loan a C172 The technique you are using assumes that you will never have an engine failure. There are two types of pilots in the aviation business. Those that have had an engine failure and those that are about to.
You should have done a base turn and then turned at 200ft and with the nose on the piano keys on final at 1500 rpm and 45 kts with flap you would have been able to come to a full stop at the end of the piano keys. Draging your backside along final approach is a mugs game as you will find out. If I was flight testing you for renewal, I would fail you. You need to learn the P/F Formula ie.,
CL .HALF.ROW.V.SQUARED.S retired bush pilot CPL.