Many Many heartfelt thanks to all who have responded to my postings on the LML.

 

Thanks for making me feel useful once again, I am still treating my severely bruised ego, and your comments and well wishes are a great encouragement. My wife told me last evening, “You are a better pilot than one who would beat himself up for life.  Under stress, you considered several inputs and made the decision you thought best, and you walked away, now you must rebuild so I can fly with you again.”  How’s that for encouragement?  Just yesterday, I was thinking, “Do I really want to fly with myself again?”

 

Thanks to all of you, and especially my bride, I have now gone from “hanging it up” to considering rebuilding, although I will never use this runway again in a Legacy. 

 

Deep down, although I knew “I” could handle this strip, and did successfully for quite a while, I suspected I had no business REGULARLY using this strip.

 

I just thank GOD my wife wasn’t with me.  For the first 4 months, I made her drive 30 minutes and picked her up at another field just to be “super safe”.  I only took her with me on two occasions from this field recently, and now have confirmed to myself that I need to find another, not just adequate, but SAFE field to operate from.

 

In 5 months and 116 hours in my Legacy, I thought often, when away from this field, that I would like to have the same exhilarating and comfortable feeling on landing and take-off at home that I do at other fields.  I should have listened to my own thinking.  There is no question in my mind that I made bad split second decisions because of this runway environment.  I had flying speed, just was under too much stress to realize it. 

 

Fly safe out there, and again, thanks for the profound thoughts you all have shared. 

 

Ron