On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 7:17:09 PM UTC-4, wrote:
On Monday, May 25, 2020 at 5:35:28 PM UTC-4, Charles Ethridge wrote:
Hi all.

I'm a former cfi-i/mei and commercial glider pilot, but I've never gone cross-country in my PW-5 glider. Training up for it though. A question:

If you are in an area where the fields are small, but there are several private airfields around, which should be your priority?

Seems to me that the private airport would be safer, assuming you have enough altitude to overfly it. Also I notice that my (new) Oudie2 shows all the private airstrips around as potential landout spots.

Will you get in trouble (legal or financial) if you have to landout at a private airport (assuming you aren't declaring an emergency, of course)?

Ben

Go for the airports!

Please do some thorough recon before blindly sticking your glider into an unknown field! For years, we had a field south of our home base here in SC which was on the sectional, however, it was used to grow hay! Sometime during the summer, these large round bails would appear, making the field obviously unlandable but before that, the even vegetation made it look very inviting. The field was purchased by an aviation buff and is now safe to land on again at any time.

Uli
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