Kev wrote:

Now I have a question: if you're over a forest, is it still considered
better to mush into the tree tops? Or dive into the thick of it as
best you can?

The last time this came up, the best arguments I saw were to attempt a normal
landing in the treetops. Stalling the plane into the trees risks crippling or
death due to compression of the spinal column, and it requires much less
vertical force to kill you than it does horizontal force.

Of course, if your idea of a normal landing is to stall the aircraft just above
the runway, you shouldn't be doing a normal landing in the tree tops. You should
be coming in a few knots faster.

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