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How to Make a Perfect Soft Field Landing Every Time

Pilot Institute

Going into a checkride (or a grass strip) without solid soft field skills is asking for trouble. This tendency is due to their high center of gravity and heavy engine over the nose wheel. Hold this extra power as you enter ground effect. Soft field landings are widely misunderstood. Well, not exactly.

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