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Ha Ha..
Chris's strip gets another pair (several pairs?) of dirty undies! !
You showed great skill in avoiding that chook!
I'm sure you'all had a good time there though.
FYI... Chris's definition of "mowing the strip" is generally 4 passes in the Toyota at 160km/h.
The touch down would have been smoother if you had landed on the strip..rather than the undershoot.
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If you look carefully on the right you can see the
ahem runway marker cones and we clearly touch down
just inside them.
When it's wet, you can see the undulations in the surface, they are under 3 or 4 inches of water. Only down that western end though. Eastern end usually stays
reasonably dry.
120kts base, 110 over the fence and 100 on touchdown. The western end of that strip has suffered somewhat over the last few years and is less than a smooth and pristine surface
and the grass tussocks encroaching further every year. Next year I will have to fit a whipper-snipper to the front of the aerostar!
We had just slowed to below VMCA at that point and I was letting it roll out under it's own steam rather than ride the brakes, but at the call "EMU" I was on hard the brakes and we washed off about 40kts as he rolled under the wing!
Still, I would have loved to send that birdstrike report to Canberra!!
