How to Land an Airplane

Video Transcript

"Hi. I'm Dave Pressy with St. Charles Flying Service on behalf of Expert Village. We'll go ahead and turn our base leg St. Charles Traffic 43 delta is turning right base for runway 27 St. Charles. Okay, slowing up to about 70 knots here. Base we're heading right into the wind so let's go ahead and put 20 degrees of flaps down. Pitching for about 70. Air ground speed is decreased considerably so we want to adjust our power for descent rate. We're continuing to descend. And we're going to have to wait just a little bit before we turn final and take a nice slow turn to final. St. Charles traffic 43 Delta is turning 1 mile final for runway 27 St. Charles. Okay we're going to leave it at 20 flap here. Okay we're going to line up on the runway. Little bit of a slip in here as an updraft. We've got a little left wing into the wind and a little right rudder to keep it straight. A little bit long, going to lift that nose up just a little bit. Oh it's floating, floating, floating, floating, floating. On the center line. Aileron into the wind. Elevator all the way back. Okay, we'll go ahead and exit the runway. St. Charles traffic 43 Delta is clear of 27 St. Charles."