Flare Trainer
by South Central Aerodynamics Research
Designed by FAA Gold Seal CFI
Learn the one thing most landings get wrong: the flare isn’t a single pull.
- 7 aircraft
- Plays in your browser
- One-time purchase
- 10 languages
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The flare isn’t a single pull.
Flare Trainer is a browser-based landing trainer that starts you on short final at 200 ft AGL and puts the entire flare in your hands: pitch, roll, rudder, and throttle, all flown manually from a fixed cockpit view.
Most student pilots apply back pressure at the start of the flare and then stop. The nose already came up, so it feels like the job is done. But as airspeed decays, the same back pressure can no longer hold the attitude, and the nose drops.
Flare Trainer is built around this one lesson. The flight model reproduces it faithfully, so you learn to keep adding back pressure all the way to touchdown. You also learn to read the cue that tells you when: the gap between the cowling and the horizon growing steadily thinner.
Seven aircraft. Seven flares.
Each aircraft has its own Vref, flare height, tail-strike pitch, engine response, and handling. You can fly from the left or right seat.
Short final, as it really looks.
A realistic 3D world
Volumetric-style skies, sun-driven shadows (including your own aircraft’s shadow on the runway), terrain, towns, a fully marked runway, PAPI, and airport buildings.
Time of day and weather
Sunrise, day, sunset, or night. Rain or snow at light, moderate, or severe intensity. VFR or MVFR visibility.
Airport lighting
Sequenced approach lights, runway centerline and edge lights, and taxiway lighting. They come on at night, at dawn and dusk, and in MVFR.
Wind
Headwind, crosswind, and gusts. A warning appears when your setting exceeds the aircraft’s maximum demonstrated crosswind.
Sound
Engine sound that follows the throttle, piston or jet. Tire screech scaled to your touchdown G. Radio-altitude callouts, a stall warning, and an autopilot-disconnect alert on your first input.
Visible propellers
They blur as power increases.
Help when you want it. Gone when you don’t.
Bank angle indicator
PFD-style for the jets, steam-gauge style for the pistons.
PFD-style wind arrow
With headwind and crosswind components.
Crosshair & Practice Mode
An optional crosshair, and a Practice Mode with flight-director-style guidance showing exactly where the nose should be right now.
Every landing ends with a flight test report.
Touchdown sink rate and G, pitch, speed, touchdown point, centerline deviation, residual crab and drift, plus a graph of your height, pitch, and back pressure through the flare, with every moment the nose dropped highlighted.
Written coaching from a CFI’s perspective
- 01Where you stopped adding back pressure
- 02Flaring too high or too low, and ballooning
- 03Late throttle reduction
- 04An approach speed too close to the stall
- 05Stall warnings
- 06Overcontrolling in pitch or roll
Nothing to install. Fly from anywhere.
Runs in any modern browser on desktop or mobile, with nothing to install.
Drag-to-fly yoke, keyboard or gamepad.
Cleared to land.
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