Friday, September 05, 2008

Downer

When I was learning to fly, one of the techniques was a short field landing, where you have to come down slowly -- flaps down, throttle back -- and brake hard. You aim for a specific point on any landing, but particularly on one of those.

But not quite like this.

2 comments:

Unknown said...

You know how to fly? I am jealous, I wanted to get my pilots license but it was too expensive to do it.
I had to settle for a flight simulator in AFJROTC class.
Hopefully you never made a landing like that :-P

Cerulean Bill said...

No, but I do recall once when I heard a Western Airlines 737 ask the tower Didn't you say that Cessna 150 was doing a full stop landing?, and the tower replying Well, thats what we THOUGHT he was going to do....

Never did finish the program, though. At my best, I was a mediocre pilot. Fun, though.