Dave,

I enjoyed the additional footage on your video. I have had a couple of landings like that myself. I just got back from a couple of flights with gusty winds around 12-18 kts. There was a bit of a crosswind as well. I thought she handled then quit well. I did have a couple of hard landing due to the wings rocking back and forth with the wind gusts. The gears bends and takes most of the impact. No damage was done to the plane.

I went from an 11x7 to a 12x7 apc prop, and she slows down much better. The engine seems to handle the extra load with no problem. It is not quite as fast due to decreased RPM, but the extra thrust shortens the take off run to next to nothing.

Adam G