Are off-airport landouts common and/or dangerous?

Starting a new thread:Â* Your First Land Out

On 5/30/2019 4:37 AM, Charles Ethridge wrote:
On Thursday, May 30, 2019 at 4:17:59 AM UTC-4, Ramy wrote:
In 20 years of aggressive XC soaring I have well over hundred landouts, but less than 10 in fields, and less than 5 in unknowns fields. The worst damage I had was a gear collapse in a rough field (in an LS4 which are notorious for gear collapse) and very recently some belly scratches due to landing in a plowed field.
Well there was that winnemucca dry lake landing which wasn’t completely dry, but this is another story for another time, and over 20 years ago so don’t count, but yeah, beware of dry lakes which may not be dry...

Ramy
Ramy (et al): How did you get your INITIAL crosscountry/landout training? Was it formal, in-flight and required before doing your first crosscountry, like Martin Gregorie details above? or did you mostly just figure it out yourself as you went along, and stayed lucky? or something in between those two extremes, like what CindyB says about AirSailing Camp? (Note that I don't consider formal, required in-flight landout training to be "extreme", just apparently uncommon in the USA).

When I was listening to David Lessnick's great webinar, I kept thinking "There, but for the grace of God, go I." David seems like an intelligent, thoughtful, trainable guy, who just got unlucky. He was very brave to do that webinar. It is what prompted me to start this post.

Ben

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