At 04:26 07 July 2008, XYZ wrote:

The only good answer from the EMS/VFD side of the
discussion
is to
call us every time you land out. It eliminates guessing, and doesn't
put
EMS/VFD
crews at risk rolling code to a non-event.......
every time you land out.

Here's another good idea for avoiding hassles on
landing out. Some years back when the Texas Soaring
Association was hosting a 1-26 Championships, they got
together with someone from the local FSS and produced
a letter, from the FAA, to the effect that a glider landing
somewhere other than an airport was, to the FAA, a
non-event as long as nobody was injured, and no serious
property damage resulted. In such cases, the FAA did
*not* need to be informed. Each competitor was given a
copy to carry along in the gliders.

Such a letter would have helped a few years ago at a
1-26 meet out of Blairstown, where a glider made an
uneventful outlanding in a corn field (about four inches
high). The two young state troopers who eventually
showed up got all uptight and refused to let us move the
glider until they had gotten permission from the FAA (on
a Sunday afternoon). The letter would have helped.

Jim Beckman