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Old 4th Jan 2016, 00:54
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The Ancient Geek
 
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Indeed.

Firstly my apologies to those whose feathers I ruffled above with some rather poor wording of what I meant to say.

The mass of the aircraft and the approach speed both have a major influence.
The DHC6 Twotter taught me to limit my enthusiasm by taking a little trip into the weeds whilst landing at a typical african dirt strip. No damage to anything other than pride but I learned about gusting crosswinds and their effect on low speed directional stability. After that a quick look at the angles involved coming over the fence was a lot more likely to have me grabbing the ape hangers to go around. Discretion is the better part of valour.
Nobody is paying you to be a hero and scareing the passengers is not good for your career.
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