sounds to me like the 'aviator' has a helluva lot of confidence in his landing abilities, not to mention an equivalent ego/arrogance to feel the need to demonstate this.
If it WAS an emergency (SS did not mention any pan/mayday calls) then if he has time to tell you not to backtrack because he is landing, then he has enough time to tell you he has problems.
so for my money's worth radio silence would probably make me think that he has a problem, "aviate, navigate, communicate" and all that...
sitting in my chair, I'm not really sure what I would have done in SS's situation but a game of chicken would not be ruled out....
I assume as this thread is happening that the aviator was able to land/stop in the space available so we wait with baited breath for the answer.
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