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This page is dedicated to allowing pilots to tell their tale of getting away with something that could have cost them their plane or their life. | This page is dedicated to allowing pilots to tell their tale of getting away with something that could have cost them their plane, their license, or their life. | ||
The postings are intended to be informative, and cautionary to others. The submitter may identify themselves, or post anonymously by allowing one of the moderators to place the text on the page, thus preventing others from looking in the "History" of the Wiki to see who made a particular modification. | The postings are intended to be informative, and cautionary to others. The submitter may identify themselves, or post anonymously by allowing one of the moderators to place the text on the page, thus preventing others from looking in the "History" of the Wiki to see who made a particular modification. | ||
Revision as of 16:12, 18 November 2010
This page is dedicated to allowing pilots to tell their tale of getting away with something that could have cost them their plane, their license, or their life.
The postings are intended to be informative, and cautionary to others. The submitter may identify themselves, or post anonymously by allowing one of the moderators to place the text on the page, thus preventing others from looking in the "History" of the Wiki to see who made a particular modification.
Please take the stories in the spirit they are offered, that we might all learn from someone's mistake and thus avoid putting ourselves in that position in the future.
There is no shame in a go-around!
I had just entered the downwind with a bit of extra speed due to merging with a couple of people in the pattern doing touch and go's. On final, I still had a little more speed than usual, but plenty of runway, so no worries. (Some of you already know what happened next). The mains touched down perfectly, and I lowered the nose. Then "bounce", I'm in the air again, (rebound from the nose wheel). Oh no, the dreaded porpoise! My first thought was of my instructor telling me there is no shame in going around. I thought I might have it under control (my bad), but then it bounced again. At this time, the emails I had read on the Gang kicked in. In particular, I remembered reading one "experienced" contributor's email about putting the throttle to the wall in a bad situation and how no face lost in a go around, but much face is lost in a botched landing. So I throttled-up and went around. My daughter was my passenger and she was laughing at the bouncing, "can we do it again". This was much better than me crying over a bent aircraft.
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