Where is Beta?
What in the hell do you do when all things start to go wrong all at once. It was freakin' humid as hell today so the airplane didn't want to fly too nicely until I did my touchdown and then it happened. The damn thing gets caught up in ground effect and I probably use up 1200 feet just getting the plane down, then the damn Beta malfunctions and I start to panic. Try to use aero braking but the airspeed was too high and gets caught up again in ground effect and climbs maybe 20 feet. I added thrust for go around but the damn plane didn't want to climb and fu*king settles itself down (Hard) on the runway. I probably had just over 1/4th of a runway left so I pressed the damn brakes like there's no tomorrow (even though it's not recommended). Finally I come to a stop and had to make a U-Turn to get on the taxiway. Lt. Cmdr Burns (My On-Wing) wasn't too happy but the XO said he got a good laughter out of watching the whole scenario from the tower. Barely passed today, probably should've failed but they were kind enough. WTF though?



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