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Old 25th Jun 2012, 21:29
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mad_jock
 
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Its all in your ethos of flying.

If anywhere on a 2000m strip will do for you thats fine.

If you take pride in flying to tight tolerences that is also fine. When the **** hits the fan, the pilot that hits the mark every time needs to pull of a life saver will have a higher chance of survival than the ones that dump it down anywhere.

Once the pilot can dictate where to put it down, then using next to a runway light as the aiming point to reduce runway occupancy is also another good skill set.

Having something other than tarmac or mowed grass under your wheels ft above the deck is a common groundrush issue with teaching PFL's which is why its not very good knocking them off at 500ft agl. It is also noticable when you do use short runways with little undershoot or on the side of water.
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