I've come across some interesting glider landing videos recently. The first video is of a 1-26 making a short landing in a radio controlled model airplane field. On the audio you can hear a lot of concern about the fence and I was worried about a ground loop from the tall grass under his left wing. But the pilot performed a skillful landing and didn't damage anything.
Enjoy.
Oh, I was rather amused that he was ticketed for landing there. I guess that's not much to complain about if it's the worst part of the land-out.
Up next is a landing on some very wet grass.
Posted by jzawodn at June 29, 2007 09:01 AM
I think I recognize that field- it is a popular bailout field for when the ridge near Blairstown stops working. I know lots of pilots who've landed there, and gotten ticketed.
My instructor had his students work on short field landings over a fence for just that reason. We'd set up the winch and every snap we'd see who could come to a stop the quickest after going over the fence. No one got too crazy unsafe about it, but it was a fun exercise.
Here's a picture:
http://oxcart.net/wordpress/?page_id=20&path=&f=Over_the_Fence.jpg
Do you have another copy of the video? Youtube says the vid is no longer available.
