It would be nice to see such information as length and width.

I realize you can't possibly measure every small strip, so I ask: How
can you say an airstrip is "Iffy", etc, without having stood on it?

Dan Marotta

On 6/20/2014 5:49 AM, wrote:
I will be updating my local turnpoint list soon, I was wondering if someone has already worked out a system of turnpoint naming for landable places that might be short, narrow or somehow useful for some gliders but not 18m+ etc.

It would be nice to include fields or ultralight runways etc that you could use if you were desperate - better than landing in forest but still challenging for one or more reasons.

I thought of naming the landing points something like:
Iffy
Risk01
Unconfirmed01
Short02
Narrow01
Dodgy
Desperate01
Marginal
Dubious
Doubt
Dicey
Tricky
Alert
Warn

Seems like if you could use a short word that communicated a warning and a number to make it unique in case you had several in the list and or some rating.
Short is good because some displays truncate names to 6 characters on screen.

A naming convention might be really useful here.

Also is there some agreed upon runway length that you can expect a cross country pilot to be able to use without either leaving it off the list or giving a warning? Surrounding trees/obstacles of course are a factor, but would 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200' be a minimum useful length?
[I have seen a good ASW27 pilot land on a paved runway and roll to a stop in ~125 feet, over no obstacles].

Chris