"Tony" wrote in message
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That's my story (and I'm sticking to that excuse!). What's your's, and
what were the lessons learned?


Flying with my brother in his T-18, Kinda rusty. And we went to to an
airport with runways that were at least 100 if not 150 feet wide. Huge
things.
I'm coming down, thinking that I'm practically on the ground, flairing,
holding it off, holding it off, wating for the gear to touch. Why haven't we
touched yet? We GOTTA be there! This runway looks way too close. Then, drop,
bang. I must have been 6 feet up. All that runway had "tricked" my eye.
The runways I was used to claimed to be 30 or 40 feet, but only a little
down the middle was still solid blacktop. A lot of the width had pretty much
just faded away into the grass (kinda like my memory). I wasn't used to
seeing much pavement out the side windows.

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