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- April 26, 2023
Editor: In Outlanding Techniques, Part 1 Roy wrote about landouts at private and small airports. Let's read on as we look into the possibilities of off-airport landings.
Cultivated farm fields
The optimum farm landout site would be a recently harvested, +500-meter (1640 feet) field with recently cut crop rows aligned with the wind, having an unobstructed approach (preferably over water and not across
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- October 05, 2022
We all would love to land near a farm with a swimming pool or a pub with a cold beer and some good food, but landing safely and with no damage to our glider or self is the number one priority. We can’t win a competition or fly another day with a broken glider, nor do we want to waste any of the summer with lengthy repair time to the glider or worse, ourselves. When you touch down in the paddock,