"Bill Daniels" bildan@comcast-dot-net wrote in message
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I'm not sure what scares pilots most about landouts. I find that light
airplane pilots with a lot of XC experience are less stressed than those
who have rarely landed away from their home field. It's probably just
fear of the unknown - what they don't know is that airportrs are pretty
much alike.


It's not other airports that create the pucker factor, no worries there.
It's the obstacle in the field that you couldn't see until you were on final
that makes me conservative. I've only had 5 'aux vaches' landouts and on
one of them there was an obstacle I didn't see until I was turning final.
The Mosquito can make a nice steep approach and I'd conserved my
altitude/options so all ended well. That surprise on final did reinforce my
conservatism.