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Douglas Johnson wrote:

wrote:

On Mon, 26 Jan 2009 19:55:30 -0800, Smitty Two
wrote:

OK, s'pose you explain the achievement to me, as you see it. He landed
the plane within 3 knots of the landing speed called out in the POH.
(pilot's operating handbook.) Every pilot does that, every day. He did
*nothing* to "achieve" the intactness of the plane, other than landing
at the correct speed, in the correct attitude. No magic. No miracle. No
exceptional skill. Just an ordinary, every day landing, in the river
instead of on the runway. That's *all* there is to it, and the pilot
isn't being "modest" when he says that, he's telling you the damn truth.

Obviouly spoken by a non-pilot.

He sounds like a pilot to this pilot.


Thanks Doug. I confessed earlier in the thread to being a pilot. I
thought we were done with this thread but mm came in late and stirred it
up again. My patience with ignorance on this topic is used up. Not the
ignorance so much as the posturing of a few ignorant people, who somehow
love to brag about their misconceptions, and cling to them like a life
raft.