Landing long
Have just seen the post re Rochester. Time on time again I see similar accident reports in GASIL where chaps touched down long and ran through the boundary fence causing all sort of chaos/carnage.
If a runway/airstrip is posted as being 600 metres long, then the guy who measured it stood at the very end..and measured.. to the other very end!!
Why do so many pilots (especially us recreational PPL's) chose not to land at the start of the runway? What is so Łucking attractive about the halfway point and the intrinsic "will we make or won't we" roulette?
We do ourselves very little favours when totally preventable accidents such as landing short/long occur.
Miffed 'cos my insurance over time will be recalculated to take things like this into account.
Stik