Talk about a short landing...

[mAgNeToDrOp]

I've seen this a few times but I can't get enough of it

 

 

 

[storchy neil]

that is short wonder what his hand brake on the nose was neil

 

 

[Neil_S]

Stronger headwind he would have gone backwards!!

 

 

[facthunter]

That can happen. IF you roll backwards it can get interesting. Without taking the headwind into account those feats don't have much to assess them on. Nev

 

 

[Head in the clouds]

My old mate Bazza (Barry Hughes RIP) had some interesting times in strong headwinds in his Rotec Rally.

 

The most notable event was in the Numinbah Valley which is a natural wind funnel in southerlies or south-easterlies. On this day he was flying down to Evans Head for the New Year fly-in, in about 1989 and it was blowing about 20kts aloft which becomes about 40kts with the funneling effect. There isn't really any way of avoiding it because everywhere else around there is tiger country. Bazza realised he was making such slow progress that he would run out of fuel, so he decided to land in a paddock below, near Natural Bridge.

 

He made an almost zero groundspeed landing similar to the OP and then had to use considerable throttle to taxy forwards to the end of the paddock where he intended to tie the plane to the fence. When he got there he had a moment's brain fade and switched off the engine to jump out and tie to the fence but before he'd even got his harness undone the plane was blown over backwards and cartwheeled down the paddock. It was quite badly damaged but Bazza had it fixed and flying again in a matter of days, in time to get to the fly-in before it ended. It used to be about 5 days back then IIRC.

 

After that, and since the Rally had a pusher engine, Bazza always carried a length of 6mm rope tied to a grappling hook - like a 200mm long fishing treble - to lassoo a fence from the pilot seat if he ever needed to.