There seem to be an inordinate amount of runway overruns taking place and this makes me think of my own experience as a glider and power pilot.
In my carreer as a private pilot I have made thousands of landings and touch and goes.
Not one of them resulted in a runway overrun. Why ???
Because, as a glider pilot, I was trained to think of the landing as the only one between success and failure, therefore, it had to be good, every time and under all circumstances !
That requires thinking and an attitude geared to meeting the criteria leading to a good landing....circuit planning, wind, pre-landing preps, base leg and finals at just the right speed and approach angle ! i.e. stabilised. What's the matter with some of our current crop of commercial pilots ! Did they not receive the proper training ? Should they have spent time flying gliders ? Should all pilots flying be required to be exposed to glider flying ? Or, what about teaching power pilots to treat all landings as dead stick ones ?
