Luke Scharf writes: > On Sat, 2003-03-15 at 15:15, David Megginson wrote: > > If anyone wants a real challenge, try landing the Cub across the > > runway instead of along it. It should be easily doable with the > > 200-foot wide runway, but I haven't quite succeeded yet. > > When one of my friends was working on his private certificate, his > instructor landed the Cessna 150 they were in across the runway. They > descended nose-up with full-throttle (on the backside of the power > curve). I'm not sure how wide the runway was, but it was at a towered > airport. > > Fish story? I don't know, but I'm definitely not going to try it in a > real aircraft!
The way I heard it, after landing, the two <insert nationality of choice> pilots looked at each other. One said, "Wow! that was the shortest runway I've ever had to land on!" The other looked side to said and added, "Yup, and the widest too..." Curt. -- Curtis Olson IVLab / HumanFIRST Program FlightGear Project Twin Cities [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Minnesota http://www.menet.umn.edu/~curt http://www.flightgear.org _______________________________________________ Flightgear-devel mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.flightgear.org/mailman/listinfo/flightgear-devel
