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Old 11th May 2005, 10:24
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I had a situation once where I landed on a short ag strip in a 172. Turned out I misjudged the wind, and the fact the strip was wet, and nearly ended up through the end fence amongst some cows.

After touchdown and after I realsied the Sh!t was about to hit the fan big time, I was hard on both brakes, control column all the way back and alternating from full right to full left rudder. The aircraft gently skidded sideways and suddenly stopped very quickly. Came to rest few meters from a fence. Was just left with a bit of grass in the spats!

Oh and the flap was up soon after touchdown.

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