Right Main, Where Are You?(military air pilot's problems with landing)(Brief Article)

Approach | December 1, 2000| | Copyright

I visualized ejecting from a cartwheeling jet and decided it would be best for me to make a good landing

Unlike most of the events recounted in this magazine, mine happened during daytime, not at the boat, and VMC. In fact, the nearest cloud was somewhere down by Ensenada, Mexico. If I was ever going to have an emergency, this was the perfect day for it. The only thing out of the ordinary was that the right runway was out of service, and the normal off-duty was the emergency runway.

I was returning to base after a 1 v 1 with our new pilot-training officer. ...

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