Hey everyone, lately I’ve been experiencing trouble keeping my plane on centreline on final approach. It really messes up my landing either resulting in a go around or just landing extremely late. Everything will be lined up perfectly, then the plane just casually drifts away from centreline and I have to correct it which takes my focus away from landing. I’ve tried many options but it just doesn’t seem to work well, does anyone have any solutions? How does everyone else keep there phone steady while on final approach? I know auto approach is an option but I prefer manual landings.
EDIT: This is not due to crosswind. This happens no matter the direction and speed of the wind.
Edit 2: Issue has been resolved, thanks for the help! :)
Winds are usually fine, I either have a headwind sometimes a crosswind but I can crosswind land fairly well. It’s mainly that I think my phone is ever so slightly uneven causing me to casually drift from the centre line. It happens on takeoff too, except I usually just active the autopilot right after takeoff to prevent that.
what’s the average of your VS when you land? Because if your landing too hard it can do stuff like this. Maybe try a slower landing speeding, as i said before you need rudder to prevent such like this
It depends but I usually try for -600 and then once I get to about 200 ft AGL I level out at around -200 or -100. I believe it’s more of a issue with the way I’m holding my phone, like I’m holding every so slightly to the right causing the plane to turn to the right. When you are landing where do your rest your device or do you have a joystick?
Maybe, thanks for the responses anyways, I figured it would be a bit difficult of a topic since it’s device side and not the weather side. I’ll see what I can do. :)
When you get to about 200? That’s way too early, more like 15-20 feet agl, when you’re drifting away from the centreline, if you have your yoke in the status bar is it turning to one side? That means that you’re making it turn slightly so you should try and keep it level, also, does your fpv drift to one side without any aileron input? If your just keep you fpv on the centreline you should be fine