Last time his girlfriend flies with him.

http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/watch...ational-airport

Very nice touchdown. You can always second guess and nitpick. Shutting down the engine would save a lot of damage and cost for the engine. But it also eliminates any chance of a go around or last use of power to change the last bit of flare. But under those conditions you foremost want to survive; the insurance company owns the airplane.

Well done pilot.

Nice airplane.....that landing field is about 40 miles from my daughters place.
Hope he corrects the 'problem'!.....

Couldn't get the video to play.

Yep. Nice Job by the pilot in setting it down... Glad they're both safe, though I don't envy them the repair bill...

Gotta love the news weenies though -- article says "The twin-prop plane ..." Nice fact-checking there...


Regards,
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Video no work.

FourSpeed there is 2 blades on the prop.

Any landing you can walk away from!

Any landing you can walk away from is a good landing.

Any landing that you can still use the airplane after is a great landing.

I love when regular media outlets write about aviation and always screw stuff up.

"The twin prop plane"...meanwhile the video is clearly a Piper Arrow.

I like the armchair quarterbacking that invariably happens after a landing like that.

He could have had the door propped open a little, which is recommended.
He could have shut the engine down when the mains were down and saved a prop strike.
He could have gone for the grass between the runways and limited damage to the cowl.

At the end of the day, though, he got it done with neither himself or his passenger injured. Bonus: about as little damage to his aircraft and stuff on the ground that could be done.

As someone that had his own reversal of fortune flying, there's what one could have done and there is what one did. In the time constraints of the moment, if one comes out of it uninjured then one did just the right thing, IMHO.

We did loose a few on an overloaded takeoff a few years ago. The crash before that was and experimental that stalled trying to abort a mechanical error. If you consider the traffic, it is a well run airfield.

The video starts by showing the 2 lane highway at the East end of the airfield. The video is East to West. It is a busy road, so the lengthening of the runways the other year was done on the West side. If you Google a little West of the airfield, you will find the lake where the majority of the last 10 year's, news worthy, failed take offs have ended up. A good share of those ditchings ended up with major spinal injuries.

In 2004 they built a "sound" wall. I grew up next to an airfield. I live next to a prison wall. I wonder if they know that the homeowner West of me has removed the parimiter fence between the property line and the wall.