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Brad
So our local flying group flew up to the Breezy Point (8MN3) Fly-In yesterday. Great event and turn out. But wow was the landing and takeoff tough for me. I've done a enough (small/busy) fly-in's to not be overwhelmed by the traffic but this was heavy chop/turbulence + gusty near direct crosswind over tress + short field + trees on the arrival end. I bounced once kinda hard on landing but never let the wind under the wing.
After I got home and lots of thinking I had this recollection that I cut the turn from base to final and thus didn't setup good which led to the crappy landing. Today I looked at the track on Garmin Pilot and it was a nearly perfect rectangular pattern with 90 degree turns and exactly 1 mile final...no way!
Now that I think of it, it seems we (well at least I) recall things being worse than they really are in these types of situations? I know I have thumped it down now and then thinking its 10ft and its probably 1ft. Maybe that bounce yesterday wasn't even as bad as I thought it was? Its like the more stressful parts of flying are often recalled worse than they really are. Why is that? Do we all do that?
After I got home and lots of thinking I had this recollection that I cut the turn from base to final and thus didn't setup good which led to the crappy landing. Today I looked at the track on Garmin Pilot and it was a nearly perfect rectangular pattern with 90 degree turns and exactly 1 mile final...no way!
Now that I think of it, it seems we (well at least I) recall things being worse than they really are in these types of situations? I know I have thumped it down now and then thinking its 10ft and its probably 1ft. Maybe that bounce yesterday wasn't even as bad as I thought it was? Its like the more stressful parts of flying are often recalled worse than they really are. Why is that? Do we all do that?