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Old April 11th 07, 01:59 AM posted to rec.aviation.piloting
gyoung
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Default 5 Flights to Make Before You Die

How about a soft field landing, when you get it so right, that you never
feel the aircraft touch down. You just hear the wheels start rolling.



Oh, yeah!! My most memorable landing ever - C-172 checkout at Isla
Grande airport in San Juan, PR: went twice around the pattern, then one
landing on a runway that had just been wetted by the usual afternoon
rainshower - no bump, no jolt of the tire spinup, not even a squeek -
the check pilot said "You may take our airplane" ...

.... and returning to the original subject of this thread - "You may take
our airplane to St. Thomas, VI". Now that's a flight I'd like to make
again, but grateful I was able to make it once (1965).