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Old 8th Jan 2013, 14:57
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mad_jock
 
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Its a pretty standard arrival for a magenta line borg who has been taught to fly 3 degree glides in everything.

They get to the bottom and pull the power off and the thing drops out of the sky.

You guys forget that they arn't being taught how to fly light aircraft. They are being taught the minimum required to then go and fly around using automatics.

Yes a PPL that got taught by one of the instructors on here saying that landing was a pile of poo after 120 hours would more than likely have done a better job of it. But the chap didn't most of his training will have been done with everything being supervised quite a bit of his PIC time will have been supervised with an instructor in the RHS.

You can't expect one of these zero to heros to do what you expect would be normal. They just have never been trained to fly a SEP properly.

He walked away from it with only his pride damaged only fault was it was caught on camera.

Yes some of us here would have driven it onto the runway holding the damaged wheel off then not touched the brakes and the whole thing would come trundling to a halt. A few of us would have a good shot at doing a one wheeler round to the front of the hangar as well. You can taxi a PA28 at less than 20knts on one main wheel. Most of us will have done that demonstration to students when they insist on landing to fast. Easier in a Cessna I will admit but you can do it with a piper as well.
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