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Old 20th Apr 2016, 11:34
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Chesty Morgan
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Originally Posted by Shaggy Sheep Driver
I once got caught out at Alderney in a PA38 approaching over the cliff edge. The wind was down the runway so I was expecting a mighty downdraught on final (so made a high slightly fast approach) but completely underestimated its strength. Retracting the last stage of flap and applying lots of power got us safely to the runway, but I was shaken by the incident as I HAD been expecting it - but hadn't been expecting anything as strong as that.
Excellent. But have you not heard of a unstable approaches and go arounds?
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