Outlanding Award - Feedback Requested

On Tuesday, August 13, 2013 11:43:42 AM UTC-4, Alexander Swagemakers wrote:
There was an outlanding competition in germany for many years which has been discontinued for a while now. There were two categories. Best outlanding story and most outlandings. The idea originated in a statement in Helmut Reichmann's book saying that you should plan tasks to your maximum abilities and take into account regular outlandings. Thats basically saying if your not landing out regularly your not pushing hard enough. From this perspective a prize for a lot of outlandings is not a poor pilots award. It is rather a promotion of outlandings being part of the game and encouraging pilots to readily take into account an off field landing.



I have seen a few pilots who feel that an outlanding is an embarrassing failure. Thats absolute nonsense. A lot of world class pilots got there by countless outlandings.

TOTALLY AGREE!!

In article Alexander Swagemakers writes:
There was an outlanding competition in germany for many years which has bee=
n discontinued for a while now. There were two categories. Best outlanding =
story and most outlandings. The idea originated in a statement in Helmut Re=
ichmann's book saying that you should plan tasks to your maximum abilities =
and take into account regular outlandings. Thats basically saying if your =
not landing out regularly your not pushing hard enough. From this perspecti=
ve a prize for a lot of outlandings is not a poor pilots award. It is rathe=
r a promotion of outlandings being part of the game and encouraging pilots =
to readily take into account an off field landing.

I have seen a few pilots who feel that an outlanding is an embarrassing fai=
lure. Thats absolute nonsense. A lot of world class pilots got there by cou=
ntless outlandings.

Gee, our local examiner expects to see planning to show that one knows
how to avoid off-airport outlandings. This as a part of flight planning.
He looks at this for Private ratings, not just for Commercial (where it is
done as well).

Given that, I would think that an outlanding might well be considered a
bit embarassing if a result of poor planning. (I saw one sitting next to
highway 101 a few years ago after just such poor planning.)

Alan

Alan wrote, On 8/14/2013 9:41 PM:
In article Alexander Swagemakers writes:


I have seen a few pilots who feel that an outlanding is an embarrassing fai=
lure. Thats absolute nonsense. A lot of world class pilots got there by cou=
ntless outlandings.

Gee, our local examiner expects to see planning to show that one knows
how to avoid off-airport outlandings. This as a part of flight planning.
He looks at this for Private ratings, not just for Commercial (where it is
done as well).

Given that, I would think that an outlanding might well be considered a
bit embarassing if a result of poor planning. (I saw one sitting next to
highway 101 a few years ago after just such poor planning.)

It is important to know how to avoid outlandings, but it doesn't take
much XC flying to realize successfully avoiding outlandings means you
have considerably restricted your soaring. There is often the choice
between proceeding on your task towards uncertain lift, or flying to an
airport for a certain landing. Personally, I often prefer the
potentially soarable direction, as long as I believe I can make a safe
landing.

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