Comet wrote:AIRTHUG wrote:
If it's no wind... why land down the hill?
Excellent advice Ryan, but I'm not sure he even had enough altitude to do a 180 back up the hill.
And who's fault was that? Much can be learned, watching Jonno-vids... but it often requires reading between the lines a little.
Like here- we can learn about intending to get to your selected LZ
higher than you need, because hey, things don't always go as ya planned. And, reading his comment above about how it can be tricky landing downhill- and the followup quoted above about not having altitude to set up differently- we can observe how we... ALL OF US... are humans that can get caught in fallible logic. Even when intending to he hyper dillegent regarding safety, and highly analytical after each flight with where we could improve... it's easy to get distracted by one thing (in this case, the sloped LZ) and miss a bigger thing (not ensuring enough altitude to set up a safer landing).
And before Jono gets all twisted again... I want to be clear I very much include myself in this. I have a carefully selected number of pilots I trust intimately, and I seek "checks and balances" from these individuals often. Our community, as friendly and well-meaning as it is, can be a pretty unreliable source for accurate, critical information. Look at this forum for example... there is good stuff... but who can tell the good stuff from the (well intentioned) bad advice? Or some kind of personal somethingerothers (I don't even know you DAVE 858?!?!)
Shut up and fly.