On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 9:37:33 AM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:
I found a few mentions of Canopy Wire Deflector Bars in the RAS Archives. One said that the deflectors were mandatory in the Netherlands. What has been experience and what is current thinking? Links and search terms appreciated as I could not find much with initial google search.

Temporary electric livestock fences are a known landout hazard in my area..

You're still in VT?

A field that's used for stock, temporary or otherwise, is basically a place to crash in Northern New England. A farmer doesn't go to the trouble of getting all the rocks out and rolling a field flat to put livestock on it. The exception would be a horse farm. You don't want to land there either, if horses are about.

It's true: if you hit a wire, you're better off with a cage.

But instead of X hours and Y dollars installing a cage, I'd spend X hours on Google Earth and Y dollars on gas learning about fields and planning routes. 95% of our XC flying is with airports or known good landable areas (typically clusters of hay fields) in reach and by and large *the routes aren't random*. The only time we fly "field to field" at 3000 agl is when making an early get away for a 500K+ sort of flight, and those routes are are selected for the purpose.

Evan Ludeman / T8