Air incident investigations have shown that under stress/duress, a pilot will ignore things that seem stupidly obvious due to focusing on one aspect of the cris

Air incident investigations have shown that under stress/duress, a pilot will ignore things that seem stupidly obvious due to focusing on one aspect of the crisis. That first landing looked far from 'perfect'. He was coming in high and possibly too fast, and I daresay he was focusing too much on how much runway he would have left after landing. He could have also assumed that the warning was the overspeed warning from extending landing flaps at too high a speed (though most light aircraft don't have that warning system). That second one was a lot less explicable - looked like a normal landing approach. Surprised that the instructor also didn't pick it up. Interestingly, that second pancake landing is in exactly the same type of aircraft that I did my initial flying training in. Something about seeing that instrument panel, and hearing that warning alarm made the hairs on the back of my neck stand up, and raised my pulse a little. Even 25+ years after I last flew that type!