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Old 01-06-2007 | 09:55 PM
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I’ve had my fare share of bad landings, but nothing compared to a landing I was witness too a few years back. After a LOC 27 circle to land 09 approach at a small uncontrolled airport in IMC we taxied back and held short of 09 while picking up our clearance from FSS. We see a Saratoga on approach, but he wasn’t circling to land, he instead chose to land on 27 with a 13kt tale wind. He touched down past half runway and we both watched as his rollout extended past the threshold and into the grass about 20ft. He turned around and taxied back on the runway, and to add insult to injury he taxied back and got inline behind us for T/O. As I was watching him land I thought maybe he was critical fuel or he was in some dire need to get on the ground. When he taxied behind us I knew he was just a dumba$$.
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