My (first) tree landing

[brianvh]

I don't think Shawn's post was directed specifically at you, Tad. Just the overall fur-fight.

[John Harper]

I realize I'm a little late on this post but I don't get on here allot. First of all I am glad you are ok but "My first tree landing" no one lands in trees, call it what it is " My First CRASH". I'm not going to question your skill but if you were that good you wouldn't need a drogue chute to land at Daniels especially on a windy day. Don't make excuses just admit you messed up maybe you miss judged maybe you are in over your head what ever it is fix the problem. I would hope that no pilot would expect to crash, that is stupid. I sure wouldn't want to fly around you. Attitudes like this will cause the rest of us to loose sites.
John Harper

[mcelrah]

Bah! John's a great pilot, but here we go again with criticism based on what Janni wrote and an assumption that he expected to crash (huh?!). OK, I'm not sure I would even try to land a blade wing in that LZ - but, hey, I'm NOT THAT GOOD! So if you're relatively green and you've got a blade wing, whaddaya do? Ya gotta survive the first few hours in the thing. Is there something wrong with drogues? If I was really good, I wouldn't even need a glider - just flap my arms! - Hugh
P.S. I do agree that this was an avoidable accident - approach and landing 101: fly on top of the tree line, not the other side of it.

[Tad Eareckson]

Oops.

No, Brian, just read a message from Shawn, it wasn't directed at me.

Sorry, Shawn. We're on the same page with this.

[jimrooney]

I'm not going to question your skill but if you were that good you wouldn't need a drogue chute to land at Daniels especially on a windy day.

Bullocks, you just did.