> I see it all the time with these new wankers, they didn’t do anything smart
> like shoving the thrust levers through the bulkhead.
I had a flying instructor that was teaching that you only kept your
hand on the throttle if you were doing a touch-and-go, but not if you
were doing a full-stop landing. Maybe that is how NORMAL instructors
teach, but I remember that at Ottiger, our home airport, you didn't
move your fingers off of that throttle until you had three tires
squishing into the pavement, a cloud of brake dust and absolutely no
chance of surviving a go-around. Every landing was to be treated as a
touch-and-go until proven otherwise. Different attitude. Instead of
the go-around being the exception, in your mind, the go-around is the
rule. When you are running short-field, tall-trees, high-temperatures
and swirling gusty winds, you've got to be willing to say "nyet" and
abandon the landing. It's far easier to make that decision when it is
the default mode and a landing completion is the mental exception. One
of the active pilots at our field was a retired Navy pilot and tried
to beat it into all of us that every landing was to be a go-around
unless otherwise noted. Unfortunately, my dad learned the hard way
(twice) that not thinking that way would result in bent wings and
props.
The lesson from the 777 accident: Baggage compartments make lousy landing gear.
AG
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