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Friday, August 04, 2006

One more trip


We have been doing quite a bit of flying but not a lot of blogging lately. The weather here has been great for flying. This past weekend I popped over to the farm in Montana for the weekend and came back early Monday morning. Nice commute if you can get it.
When I landed at BFI there was an 8 knot tail wind while landing on 31R. Since SEA and BFI and so close they need to coordinate runway changes so you will many times land with a tailwind at BFI when it isn't quite enough of a tail wind for the big jets going into SEA to worry about.
Anyway, I decided I was going to nail this landing so I did a modified short field technique, max reverse thrust and moderate braking and managed to get of at A10 taxiway even with the tailwind.
For those not familiar with the airport that is a distance of a little over 1,000 feet. That is a nice thing about the Meridian: you can land in pretty short distances if needed. Of course the only way you could lift off in that distance is with a crane...