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February 24, 2014, 8:23:06 EST

Clearing the memory banks

Making room for new memories

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Christoph Huber posts:

Happened in October of 2013 but didn't share at first, I needed some time to recap for myself. I was very lucky to walk away from this with "only" a pretty bad concussion and a compressive injury of my spine, but no fractures, fortunately. (And about two Days of my life got cleared from my memory)

Video here.

I think I've had enough speed for the final turn and approach, but it looks like I overestimated the airspeed after the last turn and underestimated the slope of the landing site. Watching the video you can see that I had to slow down a bit in order to get over that last tree safely, so if the downwind leg of my approach would have been clear of obstacles I probably would have had that extra 10 k I thought I was having.  What I take with me from this, besides the occasionally aching neck, is that I won't try maneuvers like this at landing sites with restricted obstacle clearance again.

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