On Thursday, April 17, 2014 2:46:21 PM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
On Thursday, April 17, 2014 12:49:31 AM UTC-4, Mike the Strike wrote:



Many of our emergency landing spots .... or smugglers landing spots near the border where you are likely to meet with armed villains).



As a Yankee and fan of "Breaking Bad", I'm having a hard time sorting fact from fancy. A run-in with Banditos (or the DEA suspecting nefarious cargo in the glider) is a possibility?

One of our emergency strips not too far from the Mexican border is a semi-abandoned ranch strip that sees a lot of night-time use by smugglers. I landed there a few years ago and was retrieved by road uneventfully. A colleague who landed there more recently found two men had opened his canopy and were rifling through his cockpit after he'd walked away from his ship. They sped away on ATVs as he approached. Smugglers often have local ground support who use off-road vehicles and frequent deserted airstrips!

An FES system has some appeal!

Mike