In article Alexander Swagemakers writes:
There was an outlanding competition in germany for many years which has bee=
n discontinued for a while now. There were two categories. Best outlanding =
story and most outlandings. The idea originated in a statement in Helmut Re=
ichmann's book saying that you should plan tasks to your maximum abilities =
and take into account regular outlandings. Thats basically saying if your =
not landing out regularly your not pushing hard enough. From this perspecti=
ve a prize for a lot of outlandings is not a poor pilots award. It is rathe=
r a promotion of outlandings being part of the game and encouraging pilots =
to readily take into account an off field landing.

I have seen a few pilots who feel that an outlanding is an embarrassing fai=
lure. Thats absolute nonsense. A lot of world class pilots got there by cou=
ntless outlandings.

Gee, our local examiner expects to see planning to show that one knows
how to avoid off-airport outlandings. This as a part of flight planning.
He looks at this for Private ratings, not just for Commercial (where it is
done as well).

Given that, I would think that an outlanding might well be considered a
bit embarassing if a result of poor planning. (I saw one sitting next to
highway 101 a few years ago after just such poor planning.)

Alan