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Old 6th Feb 2014, 21:17
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My cross the runway landing was in a Schweizer 2-33. There were some small cells in the area and the lift was good. One of the small ones got large at a rate which was hard to comprehend. It was a "good judgement comes from experience, experience comes from bad judgement" moment. I had a hard time getting down at redline and dive brakes out until I was able to fly out of the lift. I thought it would be fine once I was on downwind but then I realized the gust front from the storm had set up a major crosswind. I had to fly clean, 70MPH until I crossed the side threshold of the field in order to penetrate. I landed on the taxiway to the hangar, the crew grabbed us before we stopped and shoved us in the hangar before we even unstrapped.

Often when towing there (Harris Hill) the crosswind would have us at such an extreme crab on final that it was discouraging. It always seemed better near the ground.
Bryan
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