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A number of personnel will not be happy with you as they will now have to replace all the damaged wood on the deck.
 
"When a prang seems inevitable, endeavour to strike the softest, cheapest object in the vicinity as slowly and gently as possible."
(Advice given to RAF pilots during W.W.II)

:icon_lol::icon_lol:
 
but yeah... i'd give that landing a 9.....









...on the Richter scale... :icon_lol:

how did you manage it? forget to lower your gear? gear hit the stern or just too hard on contact?
 
Hi Willy,

don't worry, they have been expecting this already. Did you see the warning painted on the bridge regarding your propeller bits flying aroud?

Best regards,
Volker
 
Matt Wynn said:
how did you manage it? forget to lower your gear? gear hit the stern or just too hard on contact?
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I'm not sure, from the VC on short final it was looking like the approach angle was a little low, but should touchdown about the rear deck elevator. The landing wasn't looking perfect, but good enough that I didn't "take the wave off" & go around. Hit the deck and pieces started flying. It dropped down on the belly and slid up to where it's at in the pic (the bow was starting to look awful close as I was sliding towards it).

I've been having issues with the Seafire and the MAAM CVL anyway. Touch down between the rear elevator and the stern and it automatically crashes. So, I've been landing a little long onto the second group of wires forward of the elevator. But I took off from there this morning and flew on to Hong Kong where I landed on the USS Lexington in the harbor with no problems.
 
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