On 27 Jan, 17:00, Bob Whelan wrote:
wrote:
So, what do you call an outlanding? If you land at an established
airport/airfield is this an "Outlanding"? Or is it an uncompleted
flight into an airport.

Mentally, I approach every landing made away from my runway of takeoff
as an off-field landing, whether made at an airport or not....run
through the same checklist w. the same rigor, etc.
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I have read a lot of club SOP's that recommend a "planned" outlanding into an airport as training for a real
outlanding! Not the same thing. Is this a recipe for trouble?

Not - IMHO - if done per above. True, paved-airport landings don't
address the off-field surface issue(s), but I'm aware of at least one
broken G-103 done at a non-home-airport landing...and LOTS of landing
lights hit over the years. A paved-airport landing has all of the same
OFL landing risks save two: 1) known good surface, and 2) generally
decent approaches.
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A landing at a strange airfield is just that! Any resemblance to an
'outlanding' is nothing more than coincidental!
If you are flying 'airfield' to 'airfield' you know that there is
going to be a runway and decent approaches you dont have to worry
about things like ........

Field selection, orientation, slope, surface type, crops and height of
crop, livestock in the field and yes approaches. Also it may not be
big enough so now what! Options and a 'plan B'

Then there's post landing safety, what happens if you stuff it into an
unseen obstruction in a remote field, will someone find you and/or the
wreckage. Communications? There may be no one about for miles and the
cell phone coverage could be lousy. Security, what happens to your
ship when you walk out?

How do you get the ship out? Access for car and trailer. Do the crew
even know where you are?

Your own well being? I have been in fields for up to 6 hours without a
roll of toilet paper - no problem at an airfield but it nearly cost me
a sectional
Water? Shelter? What about protection for self and ship from the hail
or electrical storm that was about to wash you out of the sky?

Ok so a lot of this is not a problem in the UK where the nearest
village is usually no more than a couple of miles away but in some
places I have flown they are very real considerations.

The pilot stress level are considerably more going into a 'field'!