Postby Tetsuwan Penguin » 12 years ago
Reminds me of the time that I got caught in a crosswind, over corrected, came down with too high a rate of decent and bounced off the runway almost onto the taxiway. I luckily managed avoid ground looping the Citabria, but it was a pretty embarrassing landing to say the least, probably my second worst landing ever. Oh, and my sister was in the back seat at the time. (The worst landing I remember every making was when I came down too hard doing a wheel landing and managed to slice a small piece of the runway with the prop! Luckily on THAT one I didn't damage the prop or the engine, thanks to the tarmac being so soft due to the hot sun. But there was a good telltale hunk of tar stuck to one blade of the prop!)
Anyway, on that first one I got "invited" up to the tower for a talk with the FAA controller. Someone later told me they probably wanted to see if I was drunk at the time I made that landing!
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Tetsuwan Penguin on Sat Jul 20, 2013 8:22 pm, edited 2 times in total.