Toughest landing yet

[Mtns2Skies]

Here is my toughest landing. Engine failure.... 3 passengers "wife, Mom, and myself" and we all walked away.


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Is there a writeup somewhere on this? If not, would you mind making one? Well done!

Edit: Since this is PoA afterall... That'll buff right out.

 

[bgmac]

Is there a writeup somewhere on this? If not, would you mind making one? Well done!

Edit: Since this is PoA afterall... That'll buff right out.

At the time I was a new pilot with not much experience and made a few mistakes with a new plane that I just purchased, but I picked the trees to hit and stalled the plane just before hitting them. On sit investigation lasted about 15 min with me. The investigator said I did everything right aside from misjudging the distance and speed. In my defense, the airport did not come into view until we were right on it and I did not think I had enough airspeed to go around.

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[Fallsrider]

Here is my toughest landing. Engine failure.... 3 passengers "wife, Mom, and myself" and we all walked away.


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Now that's a hard landing. Glad you all walked away.

 

[Stephen Shore]

Living in Texas, crosswinds and gusts are a part of flying. I am a pretty good "lander" in crosswinds, but one thing I don't mind doing is going "missed" and doing a go around. If a gust hits you at just the wrong time, it can really make things go bad in a hurry. I have zero hesitation to going around. The gust is a timing issue - if one hits you 100 ft off the runway you can recover. If one hits me 30 ft above the runway I just go missed. Simple as that.

I think that the single biggest issue with crosswind or gusty landings is the pilot's refusal to go around and not try to "salvage" an approach / landing.