Flight training: short field take-off & landing and soft field take-off & landing on Cessna 172

I was interested in flight for a long time, it was back to high school. I wanted to join the air force to fly the jet plane, but my family thought it was too dangerous. And fortunately, I learnt aircraft design in university for 4 years. So I have a dream for flight for a long time. After I moved to Toronto, Ontario, Canada, it's become easier to stop dreaming and start flight.

I started my private pilot license courses at June, 2014, and go to flight about twice a week. It's easier for me to fly on some basic stuff like take-off, climb, turn, steep turn, stalls and so on, because I have more knowledge about the aeronautics. But the circuits, I mean the landing, gives me a little bit hard time, I was really frustrated with the landing. Ok, let's get down to the purpose of this post, I will post my previous flight experience later.

In this post or the following posts, I am going to share my experience, learning and understanding about the flight a Cessna 172. If you have any questions, you should always conduct with your instructor. Here we may discuss the technical and experience or some feelings about the learning on the flight. 'The good pilot is always learning.' That's what I got from youtube videos of flight by MZeroA.com.

So here are the technical tips of flight about the short field take-off & landing.
    Takeoff:

• Taxi to the very begin of where runway physically starts, let the either left or right main wheel close the edge of taxi way.
• Quickly turn the plane heading to the center of runway
• Down the flaps on 10 degree
• Hold brakes firmly, and then full throttle
• Check the engine is on static runup range (For C172 is about 2065 ~ 2165rpm)
• Release brakes and keep the plan running on center line, lift off at 51kt.
• accelerate to 57kt to climb if there are obstacles or 79kt if no obstacles.
• climb to about 200Feet AGL, flaps up

    Landing(On the final):

• keep the airspeed on 65~75kt
• Full flaps and trim to around 62kt
• After clear to obstacle, throttle to idle, aiming on the spot before the regular landing aiming spot
• Level the plane to flare at about 10 to 15 feet AGL
• After touch down on main wheels, keep the nose up and flaps up
• Apply brakes but don't let tires slid on the runway

For the soft field take-off and landing. When taxiing on the the soft field runway, hold the wheel back to the nose wheel up. Otherwise the plane may get stuck on runway, such as grass runway.
    Takeoff

• 10 flaps
• Hold control column fully back to keep the nose wheel up
• Full power and keep the center line (use more rudders, even more rudders on crosswind especially left crosswind)
• Level the plane after lift-off and trim to accelerate to 79kt then climb (may need to keep the nose down to prevent climb before reach the best rate climb speed)
• Climb on about 200 feet AGL, flaps up

    Landing:

• 30 flaps
• trim to 60~65kt
• Keep the normal approach profile
• Keep a little bit power (around 1100-1200rpm), don't cut the power to idle
• When main wheels touch down, add a little bit power and keep the nose wheel up
• don't close throttle, keep back pressure on control column to keep the nose wheel up

The first things to do with these courses are chair flight. That means I sit on a chair or on a sofa, whichever makes you feel comfortable, and then imagine I am on a plane. And then do those steps one by one, it's better to start from taxi to runway and go through the whole process of circuits. Of course, we should practice the radio communication as well.