On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 3:05:07 PM UTC-7, wrote:
On Sunday, May 26, 2019 at 5:00:05 PM UTC-4, Charles Ethridge wrote:
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... when my ego pushed me into a bad situation that required an infamous water landing. I estimate I have done more than 100 field landings with only a few scratches.

Uh could we *please* have the water landing story there. Purely for educational purposes :-)

We keep recycling the same few landout stories out West, Ramy landing in the not dry dry lake, various folks who were "low following Peter Deane and then...", or glassholes who could not start their motorglider engine.