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I'd eould have gone around long time before i say the end of the runway. But thats me i like to stop with about 1/3 to1/4 runway left.
Dave
 
Holy ****.

The easiest way to judge this stuff is just to make sure you are down within the first 1/4 (1/3 works too) of the runway. If you are not down--go around. You'll never scare the crap out of yourself.

It looks to me like the terrain at the end of the runway was downhill. Lucky they were.
 
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I don't understand why she couldn't keep the camera steady? :dunno:


:eek:

So, what's the purpose of a landing?
 
Holy hell. Did they miss judge a massive tail wind or just try to set it down at 90 kts??
 
Was that the pax that said we're not going to make it ? I never did hear him throttle back....that was a real pucker factor winner right there. Hope they were going swimming so he had 'another' reason to change his shorts.
 
All I could see after they lifted off again was that hill and antenna with the stall horn going off in the back ground... holy crap...
 
GMascelli said:
Was that the pax that said we're not going to make it ? I never did hear him throttle back....that was a real pucker factor winner right there. Hope they were going swimming so he had 'another' reason to change his shorts.
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It was the pilot that said it. The pilot was the woman--the person recording the video--a male.
 
With 2500' to work with, you should not have a problem in a 172, but the runway looked like a fat rectangle until short final- talk about carrying both speed and altitude to the runway.

Yikes, indeed!
 
SCCutler said:
With 2500' to work with, you should not have a problem in a 172, but the runway looked like a fat rectangle until short final- talk about carrying both speed and altitude to the runway.

Yikes, indeed!
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The runway is also 100' wide. I guess that helps the optical illusion and can mess with the pilot's perspective. My typical runway I land on is 75', and occasionally 100' wide, but always 800-1000' longer so the perspective is different. I know I had some pucker factor the first time I landed on a 40' wide runway.

You could tell from the beginning that he was way too high, and waited way too long to go around.

Good lesson for me, GREAT lesson I bet for him! He did about everything wrong that could be done wrong, and it backs up the old saying how 1 mistake leads to a 2nd mistake and they keep on compounding unless you take pre-emptive measures to break the cycle.
 
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sheldon957 said:
Good lesson for me, GREAT lesson I bet for him! He did about everything wrong that could be done wrong, and it backs up the old saying how 1 mistake leads to a 2nd mistake and they keep on compounding unless you take pre-emptive measures to break the cycle.
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Which leads back to the question in my earlier post.

I had been flying out of some pretty long runways at Navy Jax and surrouding airports. Then, I went home and flew a 152 out of SUS down to little ole Festus... 2200x50. It was an awakening. :yes:
 
I did all my training at fields with big, honkin' 7000' runways...

...first flight after checkride, I flew a 172 to a field with a 3000' runway... set up for a short-field landing! Used, maybe, 500'?
 
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