Several weeks ago, I was flying my Skylark 70. The take off rolls seemed to be much longer than I originally remembered, but what the heck.. fly the darned thing.

Then, I realized that the landing was much longer than usual, too. We have a 3500 x 250 foot runway (Forestry Service landing strip for their air tanker).

Anyway, I did several of those take-off's and landing's when, on approach, one of our club instructors came up to me and commented about my practicing downwind takeoffs and approaches.. Jeech, I thought, he must be on drugs or something.. then I realized that it was ME that was really out of whack!! So, I just said that 'practice makes perfect, then turned it around and landed in the wind.

Oops..

Did you hear the one about the pilot that was landing and noted that the runway was very short, but extremely wide?

Ba-da-boom!!