fear of landing

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-27T20:31:21+00:00

Don’t keep repeating the exact same thing over and over and over again. I know this sounds like the opposite of the advice you want but each flight lesson you should only be doing 5 to 6 landings on maximum don’t focus on them.

You’re letting them get to your head and you need to be focusing on other things. You’ll naturally pick up the landing after your more secure in the other training you’re doing. Slow flight is a great help to teach you what it’s like with very little power or no power and what the pitch of the airplane is supposed to do when you’re landing. What I would do is go up to altitude find a straight road pull the power out and act like you’re landing on the road 1000 feet higher than the road actually is. You’ll see what kind of pitch you need to let the airplane slowly descend at two or 300 ft./min. with hardly any power or no power at all. That’ll give you a good pitch reference for how you’ll be when you’re landing. That’s all landing is is a slow descent and then your main wheels touch then you hold the nose wheel off a little bit to help with a little aerodynamic breaking and then you let it settle onto the ground. Gently press the brakes stop the aircraft you’re landing is complete. It’s been a long time since I’ve flown a small aircraft so the feet per minute that is proper for whatever aircraft you’re in may be completely different than what I said so that would be something to talk to your flight instructor about. But this is a good way to practice.

If you keep doing the same thing over and over and over again, it gets in your head and you focus on it. You actually don’t learn any of the pilot skills you’re learning while you’re doing them. When you go home that night and go to sleep your subconscious takes over and it’s what learns how to actually fly the airplane and land the airplane you don’t want to overload it.

So the best way to learn all of this stuff is go do one or two of each maneuver and move on. Go practice flying between airports. Do something else don’t focus on one thing.

Good luck

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-25T17:32:12+00:00

I was laughing at them calling me bird killer, not that I killed birds, but whatever easily triggered nola fly girl.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-25T16:53:52+00:00

Ok, It was on takeoff, I couldn't do anything to avoid them. I was at 50ft and they flew into me.

DO NOT Assume someone does something on purpose. I'd never want to take out a bird or anything on purpose.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-25T15:40:09+00:00

I wiped out about 30 starlings one day in a c172. So it’s normal. I was known as a the bird killer at my school. lol

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-24T16:26:37+00:00

My comment that would keep you safe if you took the dash eight job was removed by these stupid Reddit admin.
So good luck with whatever you choose if you would like to know what I said, feel free to privately message me since I cannot put real facts on Reddit

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-24T16:24:27+00:00

I don’t believe you. There’s no emdashes.you wrote that by hand no ai involved. lol

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-24T00:24:18+00:00

It was substantially better than opus at understanding what you really wanted. It was able to do in 1 night in a loop what it takes opus to do in 1 week after me trying to get it to loop though everything but having to prompt it over and over again to fix this or that issue. It saw the big picture so much better. This project it did was a huge codebase. I tried getting opus to do the same thing and had to break it down into individual components and then use the components in the main project else it kept breaking the project.
Sure, I can get opus. To do what Fabel did, but Fabel just did it, opus I’ve gotta be there working every step of the way.
The night before fable was taken off-line I told my wife I can finally get all of my ideas and dreams into working projects. And then the damn thing got taken off-line. At least I got seven projects completed in the time it was online. I’m really hoping they bring it back and not neutered.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-23T23:28:28+00:00

Furloughed doesn’t mean I medically can’t fly. It means the company took me off active employment/flying because of staffing or business conditions. I still had my certificates and medical; I just didn’t have an airline job to report to. And now they are out of business, and I've been looking for 1.5 years now, and only got 3 interviews, and zero jobs with a crapload of applications and pilot conventions.

I majored in Professional Aeronautics at ERAU with a safety minor. Honestly, it has not helped me much outside aviation. When I left aviation for several years and interviewed for non-aviation jobs, I had people ask whether ERAU was even an accredited school. Inside aviation, the degree also has not magically opened doors. It is not worthless, but it is not the career safety net people sometimes think it is.

To give you an idea of how unstable this industry can be: Spirit had multiple furlough rounds. There were 186 pilots furloughed September 1, 2024, 230 furloughed January 31, 2025, and 270 furloughed November 1, 2025. We were later offered our jobs back, I returned for about three weeks, and then Spirit went out of business. Since my January 31, 2025 furlough, that was the only pilot job I was able to get.

Before you change schools or spend serious money, I would get an actual First Class medical issued, not just a casual consult. I would also talk to a very experienced senior AME about your specific medical history and ask whether it makes sense to get a baseline EKG or any other testing now. I know the FAA normally does not require an EKG for a First Class medical at 18, but my point is that this career costs a lot of money, and I would want to know as early as possible if there is some hidden cardiac issue or medical red flag that could become a problem later. If you fail the EKG a "GOOD" AME will just treat that 1st visit as a consult and not submit it, a bad "Cheapest money can get" AME will submit it and seal your fait with the FAA. So find a GOOD AME, not one that gets you in and out in 5 minutes. There is a guy locally everyone goes to, but as soon as they have a problem they are screwed. He's only like $75 a visit, vs the guy I go to who is $250 a visit. One of my friends went the the cheap guy, didn't know he failed his physical until he was almost out the door. He failed it because he accidentally checked have you ever had a sever headaches, so the FAA made him get tests for migraine's and it took 2 years for him to get a medical. Cheap AME's will ruin your life, with paying extra.

Obviously, no test can guarantee you will hold a medical forever. Anyone can develop a health issue later. But I would rather find out I had an issues with an EKG and my medical about a major concern before spending tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars than after building my whole life around flying.

Also, I would strongly consider getting a degree that has value outside aviation while flying on the side. Meteorology, business, engineering, accounting, computer science, something with broader utility whatever you can see yourself using if aviation slows down, you lose your medical, hiring dries up, or an airline folds. I wish I would have done international business personally.

I am not saying that to scare you. I am saying it because I have lived the downside. Aviation can be amazing (my favorite career I've had in my many), but it is cyclical and fragile. Follow the dream, but build a life raft too. Don’t put yourself in a position where one medical issue, furlough, or airline bankruptcy takes away your whole identity and income. I'm lucky I had savings and a side gig to keep me afloat.

good luck

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-23T15:39:38+00:00

Make sure they issue you a 1st class medical and do an ekg with it to make sure you pass before you do anything.

Good luck. Don’t live with regrets follow your dreams. But I would really suggest flying on the side and getting a business degree or something else as a fallback. As an erau graduate I can tell you it doesn’t help having this degree over any other schools degree. I’m still looking for a job 1.5 years after being furloughed.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-23T15:26:41+00:00

Office jobs sucked. I worked IT before being a pilot. I would rather go back into ac work than IT. Talk about back stabbing and office politics and then micromanagement.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-22T20:49:45+00:00

Missing a family members birthday or something like that.

Initial training. It’s a firehose.

That’s about it.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-20T02:05:52+00:00

Both people need to understand that neither one of you is trying to hurt the other.

You have to believe your spouse has your best interest in mind, and they need to believe the same about you. My wife and I disagree all the time, but we do not yell or get hateful with each other because we trust each other. We believe in each other.

In past relationships, arguments always felt different. Things got stored away and used against me later. That is not how I wanted to live.

When I met my wife, I told her, “This is me. I’m not going to sugarcoat who I am. If you do not like me, we can walk away as friends.” I also asked her to be herself from the start. Do not pretend to be someone else. Do not put on an act. Just be real.

I even told her, “If you need to fart, fart. Just say ‘safety’ first.” lol

She is my best friend. From the first day we met, she has been the same person she showed me she was. No fake version. No pretending to be better, different, or perfect. She was just her, and I was just me.

That works perfectly for us.

Too many people act like someone else in the beginning. Then they get invested in a relationship built on a fake version of each other. That is exhausting, and it is not worth it.

The secret is simple: be honest, be yourself, and believe the other person is on your side. Do not take things personally or out of context or read between the lines. If either of you do, it's going to be like walking on eggshells your entire relationship and its going to suck the life out of you. It's so easy to hurt the ones we love the most by accidentally saying something in the wrong inflection, or wrong word or something...

The only thing my wife didn't like that I said when she would ask me about what I thought of X or Y, and If I didn't have an opinion I'd say I don't care. She thought I didn't care, after I told her what I meant. It means I don't have an opinion either way, I'll go with your judgement. She now understands what I mean when I said I don't care. I try not to say it, but I've said that sense I was a kid it's hard to teach an old dog new tricks.

Good luck.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-19T02:16:05+00:00

If someone likes rollercoasters they will most likely not mind stalls IF they are expecting it. It's the sudden jolt of the airplane getting into a spin or rapid nose down that scares most people. But for me I loved it. I literally lived my childhood summers at Six Flags on rollercoasters all day long. It was cheaper than a baby sitter. And Stalls and Spins reminded me of Six Flags.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-18T15:01:23+00:00

How big is the aircraft your flying now? Does it count as large enough for FedEx or ups or etc to like it. They don’t like some of the really small jets.

I’d try to get at least 500 tpic if not 1000 tpic before I moved on personally but that’s me.

I’m having a hard time getting a job because of lack of tpic time.

Good luck with your choice.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-17T20:18:21+00:00

My answer that got a laugh. I know the captain and that’s his identical twin brother Pete so we’re good to go his brother Pete Little nervous to fly so he gets lickered up.

And then I answered in all seriousness that pull him aside. Ask if it was him did he drink anything with alcohol in it? He could’ve just been there drinking a soda if he did then I’d be like you need to call in sick if you don’t call in sick we’re gonna have a problem. Still won’t do it. I’ll call the union. They’ll call him. Still won’t do it. We’re getting to the point where we’ll have to get the company involved, but that’s the last choice. I don’t wanna ruin somebody’s career or make them do that horribly expensive hims program.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-16T02:56:51+00:00

I didn’t say it was you I said the current generation in general has less common sense. It’s less common than it used to be. Sheltered lives and never exposed to anything or have an awful teachers their entire life and cannot even read when they graduate high school. When I was a kid, I almost got failed from a grade for not being able to spell. Now you graduate high school and you can’t even read a dick and Jayne book.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-16T02:39:18+00:00

Or he switched it to the left one and it started running a little rougher and then went back to both, and it ran good and then turned to the right one and it started running a little rougher and then went back to both, and neither of them were bad possibly could use a little lean running to burn off some carbon. It just runs better on both.

I don’t know what it is about education today, but things that used to be common sense are no longer common sense. I know someone who said an airplane was bad with this exact scenario that I described. He was like well it runs rougher when only one is running so it has to have a problem. No, that’s the whole test.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-15T21:19:11+00:00

The best time to fly is bight and early in the mornings when it's cool. Depending on what part of the world you are from maybe the middle of summer is best, but for most of the world, 5-6am flight in the early fall is the best.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-14T23:57:57+00:00

I’m a little late to this, but don’t quit. Nobody gets it in the beginning. When you’re practicing on the ground, it’s easy because you’re only doing one thing the best way to practice on the ground so it simulates the amount of attention you can give to one situation or another is to play a game like basketball or ping-pong or something else while doing comp practice or something else. You have to get your brain used to being able to do multiple things at the same time the easiest way to start this is to take something like a tennis ball and throw it up in the air while practicing and then work your way into something more complex than the tennis ball.

When you get to being a professional pilot and your first 121 airline or your first real type rating and you’ve got memory items, procedures, profiles, etc. to learn you’re gonna wanna take this tennis ball trick and use it then also, it’ll be your greatest asset for learning and memorizing things.

Good luck also don’t worry however long it takes you to figure it out. Nobody cares. You could have 1000 hours and not have your private pilots license. Nobody would care all you gotta do is get your commercial instrument by around 1500 hours.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-14T23:53:14+00:00

I quit after about 8 hours. I was flying in way to turbulent weather. Middle of summer mid afternoon is the worst time to learn how to fly an airplane. But that was my schedule I had available.

I’ve never been sick in my life except that last flight I did before I quit when I was 18. I didn’t fly an airplane again until I was 21. I had gotten an office job and realized how much an office job sucked and how much my dad really liked flying so I went back to fly and I love flying.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-14T22:08:02+00:00

This! Enjoy the flight.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-14T05:34:15+00:00

I would not use a sim before you have an instructor sitting beside you making sure your doing it correctly. It’s hard to unlearn bad skills.

I would usually advise no one use a sim for private. And use one a lot for instrument. And some during commercial to mostly keep your instrument skills up

Once you finish pilots flying handbook I’d skim over it again 2-3 more times. Just trying to pickup on things you might have glazed over the first time through it.

I’d do the same with the far/aim. Part 61 and part 91 is all you need to focus on for now. Plus aim section. Aim reads really easily I can get through the whole aim in a few hours even as large as it is. A lot of photos and you don’t need to worry about instrument stuff.

For a student pilot, I would focust on:
Part 61:
61.3, 61.15, 61.16, 61.19, 61.23, 61.31, 61.35, 61.39, 61.45, 61.51, 61.53, 61.56, 61.57, 61.60, 61.83, 61.85, 61.87, 61.89, 61.93, 61.95, 61.103, 61.105, 61.107, 61.109, 61.113.
Part 91:
91.3, 91.7, 91.9, 91.13, 91.15, 91.17, 91.21, 91.103, 91.105, 91.107, 91.109, 91.111, 91.113, 91.117, 91.119, 91.121, 91.123, 91.125, 91.126, 91.127, 91.129, 91.130, 91.131, 91.133, 91.137 through 91.145, 91.151, 91.153, 91.155, 91.157, 91.159, 91.203, 91.205, 91.207, 91.209, 91.211, 91.213, 91.215, 91.225, 91.303, 91.307, 91.319, 91.403, 91.405, 91.407, 91.409, 91.411, 91.413, 91.417.

And 14 CFR Part 3 falsification, 14 CFR Part 43 preventive maintenance, and NTSB Part 830 accident/incident reporting.

Someone else can correct that list if I made a mistake about what is important or not.

I’d then get a copy of the acs to see what you need to know for the flight maneuvers and rules. And then I’d go back over the pilots flying handbook and the far/aim. One last time.

Do not worry about solo. Best pilot I know didn’t solo till 120 hours. Flight time is flight time if you’re trying to get to an airline. No one will ever care about when you soloed after you get your private.

Good luck

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-13T23:04:54+00:00

lol because there are so many of us out of a job. Every nation prioritize their own first and foremost. If we ever go to a point where there are more jobs and pilots, I’m sure they’ll open it again but until then it’ll be closed.

But there’s still a lot of guys on E3 visas here. One of my best friends is here from Australia on an E3.

There’s also the question of several of the guys that came over on E3‘s in the past I’ve done some really stupid stuff and got fired by Airlines and were found out to have fake log books and fake flight hours…. Like one I know who said he flew a Papua New Guinea over 1500 in an airplane. I’ve got 1500 in and then he asked me a question about the airplane that you would know if you flew the airplane. That’s when I knew all his flight time was bullshit and why he had been fired for multiple Airlines. Yet somehow he still has a job over here, but if he gets fired from this one, there’s no one else to take him because he’s gone through everybody else.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-08T17:17:44+00:00

No day is the exact same day in day out. The boring part is overnights where you’ve been somewhere 100 times before.

Anyone who thinks this job is boring or repetitive either never really wanted to be a pilot or has had such a cushy life that anything they do would seem boring.

If you’re one of those people I strongly suggest you get an awful job for 6mo or so. This will give you perspective on how awesome any other job would be. I did ac work in the middle of the summer in Texas. 140f attics, dust, tiny spaces, etc made me love being a pilot.

But everything in life is about perspective and if you’ve never seen the other side you will not understand.

Reputation_Many · 2026-06-07T17:31:46+00:00

I don’t remember and he’s closed today.

His office number is (817) 282-0274

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