Alan C. Mack
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
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And you just S-turn it back and forth.
So you're losing your altitude laterally instead of going long.
And so my co-pilot is, I'm doing it.
And then we get to the bottom and I'm on a left-hand turn.
I know he's out to the right, but I'm at like a hundred feet now.
And I should be what we call in short final set up with all the controls kind of centered up.
And you press these little buttons that the magnets will keep the controls where they're supposed to be.
So you have, you just fight the springs, you know, as opposed to moving the hydraulics.
And I go, Jay Jethro, can you, can you see the LZ?
And he's like, yeah.
Landing zone.
Oh.
Right?
So this is where we're supposed to land.
And I said, all right, you have the controls.
And I just screwed him.
Because now he's got to take the controls after I just whipped this thing around.
And he's got to get us lined up, set up the thing.
But I will tell you, he was one of the best dust landing pilots I've ever met.
So he's better than me.