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Originally Posted by AndrewJames
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Yep, grass field runway in a powered (I kid you not) glider.
The hedge was at one end of the runway, as I turned finals I didn't spot that I was flying considerably lower than I should have been.
Having flown that approach many times I was working on autopilot using cues out of the side of the aircraft to guide my timings for certain actions. Had I actually looked at the altimeter I would have realised that something was wrong.
I was right on cue (or so I though) for perfect landing number 5 of that day, the problem was that it would have been a perfect landing several dozen feet short of the runway!
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That's not the real autopilot you understand, I meant that I wasn't thinking properly.