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Old 1st Jul 2014, 22:42
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ForkTailedDrKiller
 
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Whilst it's easy to look on and say wow, what an idiot, I must then surmise that there are a lot of idiots around this isn't the first time I've seen/heard this done.
I've done it - just once (!), some 35 yrs ago!

But let's add to the challenge - make it a 600 M, up hill, one way strip, and me in a Mooney! Landed there lots of occasions in daylight but never before at night. Kero flares marking the four corners of the strip and a Tojo parked off to one side of the approach end with its head lights shining up the strip.

I can still hear the "THWACK" - as I ran the aeroplane through the top of a prickly bush short of the threshold!

Only once - never again!

If any young pilots read this - DON"T TRY IT!

I got away with it - he didn't!

Dr

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