RatherBeFlying
20th Sep 2006, 02:29
Got the go ahead for my first flight in a different single seat glider; nice takeoff and tow; lovely handling.
At 1200' time to head over to the IP for 36 until low enough to enter downwind.
A little high on downwind; so, used spoilers to get down to 700' at mid-downwind.
Then realised to my horror that the landing runway was 18; in fact, the one I took off from 14 minutes before:uhoh:
Even worse was that 20 seconds before I was at 1200' and could have set up an acceptable circuit to 18:mad:
Sure missed having a throttle:\
The wind was almost dead calm and I was the only a/c in the zone (they kindly held the next takeoff until I sorted myself out); so, no problem from the airplane or traffic -- just tea and biccies with the CFI:= and a case of beer for the vultures.
Now that I know I can drop a clanger like this one, I'm working on strategies to not do this again.
What I don't understand is how I so quickly got myself into the mindset for the wrong runway -- habit has been suggested, but I'm well used to landing at both runways:confused:
At 1200' time to head over to the IP for 36 until low enough to enter downwind.
A little high on downwind; so, used spoilers to get down to 700' at mid-downwind.
Then realised to my horror that the landing runway was 18; in fact, the one I took off from 14 minutes before:uhoh:
Even worse was that 20 seconds before I was at 1200' and could have set up an acceptable circuit to 18:mad:
Sure missed having a throttle:\
The wind was almost dead calm and I was the only a/c in the zone (they kindly held the next takeoff until I sorted myself out); so, no problem from the airplane or traffic -- just tea and biccies with the CFI:= and a case of beer for the vultures.
Now that I know I can drop a clanger like this one, I'm working on strategies to not do this again.
What I don't understand is how I so quickly got myself into the mindset for the wrong runway -- habit has been suggested, but I'm well used to landing at both runways:confused: