While landing a Beech Sierra at Sioux City Gateway Airport (KSUX) one blustery summer day (winds 32, gusting to 40, more or less straight down the runway), I chose to use full flaps in an attempt to achieve the minimum possible landing roll — just for practice.
Well the gusts got the best of me. I’d just get the mains wheels down, and a gust would put me back in the air three or four feet. After three attempts, the plane finally landed and stayed landed on the fourth.
Humbled and somewhat embarrassed, I radioed tower:
“How’d you like that landing?”
The reply was prompt:
“Which one?”
Hugh Bennett
Gillette, WY
