The weather in Alabama was the best I've seen all year and the wife was wanting
to practice being a passenger because the previous weekend we drove 9 hours to
visit friends that have moved to Amelia Island Fl. The 9 hour trip home had her
wanting to fly down the next time. The KR can easily do the trip in 2 hrs.
We get to the airport and I decided to take the KR up to make sure
everything was in working order as it had been a month since she was last
flown. Plus this made me look good in the wife's eyes, you know, the whole
caring husband bit. The KR did not let me down, she performed flawlessly.
Got the wife tucked into the passenger side and
rolled back out for runway 22 at ASN. With the freshly overhauled o-200 out
front, the extra 110 lbs. was hardly noticeable. I had warned her that there
would be a few bumps until about 4k feet and she was OK with that. We climbed
to 7k where it was as smooth as glass, throttle back and just cruised over the
neighboring airports for about an hour.
Winds were picking up a bit
with direct cross winds according to AWAS and not wanting to scare the wife on
landing I decided to land. It got a little bumpy on the way down but not enough
to freak out the wife. I entered the pattern for 22 and after turning on final
I realized there was no way I was going to be able to get it down quickly
enough to land. So I full throttled the o-200, lifted the speed brake and went
around. This should have registered in my brain that something wasn't right but
I was just trying to stay cool and told the wife that I was just practicing a
go around. So let's try this again. Extended downwind leg, lowered the brake,
turned base in heavy descent, Turned final and this looked better than before.
Over the numbers I still had to much speed but not wanting to go around again I
just held attitude for 3 point and waited on her to settle down to the runway.
It was a long wait and I even worried about running out of runway. Finally she
touch down smoothly and using more brakes than I usually have to, I was able to
make the last turn off.
After getting back to the hanger, a couple
of fellow pilots ask why I was landing down wind. Well crap, that explains it.
I told them AWAS was giving me cross wind readings. Then one of my friends said
that this happened to him last week. Next time I'll check the wind sock.
All in all, A good day flying, the wife enjoyed
it and she has no clue how bad I screwed up that landing.
Mike Sylvester
kr2s builder
Birmingham,AL.
Cell no.205-966-3854
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