Joe, All you need is 194 hours under your belt! Yesterday I flew to Gatlinburg, TN to meet up with the family, already on vacation. Today I flew back (they stay until tomorrow) knowing that the wind on my end was going to be close to 20 knots when I got here, but I figured I could always put it down at MDQ a few miles away, which would have been right into the wind. I flew back throttled back to 3.8 gallons per hour at 10,500', taking my time to get back as late as possible so things would have a chance to settle down. Sure enough, it was 18k gusting to 23k when I got here, and at about a 60 degree crosswind, but I figured I'd give it a shot and see how I did. I could always do a go-around. It was actually a pretty decent landing. I didn't even bounce it....just squeaked in on one wheel and then the other. Of course, one second it's nasty and turbulent, and the next it's not, so I might have just gotten lucky....again...
Mark Langford, Huntsville, Alabama see KR2S project N56ML at http://home.hiwaay.net/~langford email to N56ML "at" hiwaay.net
