u/FreestyleTerrain

Flying a 182L for my commercial checkride and struggling to get consistent accuracy on my PO180s — I always either float past the 1000 footers or come up just short.

Right now I set my glide at 70 kts and make a somewhat tight base-final turn with 20 degrees flaps. That gets me about a 800fpm decent rate, and I’ll add a slip if I look too high. Finding that when I slip, it kinda throws off my aim point and I have a hard time judging what my glide angle should look like coming out of it.

I have about 300 hrs in this plane, yet this feels very new to me as I almost always approach with a little bit of power up until I’m just above the runway. Anyone else experience this? Would appreciate any helpful tips, especially for the Skylane!