Danger at 300 feet

Well, I'm back home now. The conference was great fun. You can see a video of me here.

The trip back was slightly enlivened by the landing process, which seemed to involve a bit more going up than I remembered from previous flights. Then the captain came on and said that a warning light had come on concerning the undercarriage as we were making our final approach. However, not to worry because he had done the aeronautical equivalent of bashing the dashboard of the plane and things were fine now...

Although it was a bit disconcerting to find all the fire engines lined up alongside the runway when we finally touched down...