"Alistair Wright" wrote in message
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Following on from Cherokee's funny thread (which I'm afraid I turned into
a discussion on the Silver badge - sorry chaps!) perhaps people would like
to share their most amusing moments after landing out off the airfield.
Here's a few of mine:

The time I set off on a Silver attempt and made about 10miles before
landing in a very small paddock behind a rather smart house. I had just
completed the essential pee when a very attractive lady in a bikini leaned
over the fence and asked if I would like cup of tea? Turned out to be the
wife of a local boss of a big firm making excavators.

Then there was the time (again on a failed Silver - I think I had six
attempts) when I landed in a very nice freshly cut hay field in North
Yorkshire on a lovely sunny afternnon, once more behind a house. There was
a very alcoholic twenty first birthday party going on in the garden to
which I was invited (I think they thought I was glidergram). I got some of
them to help me derig the glider, climbed over the fence, and by the time
my retrieve crew reached me I was feeling no pain at all.

Or the time a syndicate partner flew our Oly 2b all of two miles to the
local public park. He couldn't find a phone (no mobiles in those days) so
he just caught the local bus back to the club. The bus conductor not
surprisingly refused to go anywhere near this small chap wearing a flying
suit and carrying a parachute and a barograph who had just got on to his
bus! The park keeper was still checking the notice board with the bye
laws to see if 'landing a glider' broke any of his rules when we arrived
with the trailer. Two small boys had been bribed to look after the
glider. Something you couldn't do today I think.

Alistair Wright
Melrose
Scotland

One time I was flying a PW-2 Gapa locally, got low, picked a field, and
landed. Turns out it was right next to a private airport...their runway was
the driveway. We pulled the Gapa over to the runway and towed out.