On Sun, 10 Oct 2004 01:23:55 GMT, "Casey Wilson"
wrote in La0ad.387$YU4.296@trnddc06::

I keyed the mike
and announced my intentions to do a straight-in approach.
Maybe I'll try it again someday -- after I look at the geometry, and
what altitudes you should have at what distances. But this time I was way
too high and way too fast.

Thanks for the enjoyable read.

I'm sure you're aware of it, but at the risk of preaching, I'll
mention it anyway.

To ascertain whether you're approach to landing is going to be short
or long:

1. Pick a bug or other mark on the windscreen

2. Sight through the mark to the runway threshold

3. If the threshold is moving downward relative to the mark,
your going to overshoot; threshold moving upward relative to
the threshold indicates your going to be short.

Have you ever explored the remains of General Patton's WW-II Desert
Training Center in the Mojave?