On Jan 28, 2:38*pm, Mike the Strike wrote:
I'm with Andy & Kirk - if I don't make it back to my home field and my
beer cooler it's an outlanding. *I have also landed in easy fields and
at difficult narrow strips and don't believe you should categorize one
as necessarily easier than the other.

Maybe it's no coincidence that the three of us have all flown a lot in
Arizona and the southwest USA where we have some really tricky strips.

Mike

Yep, I agree, if you're buying the beer etc. it's an "Official
Landout" and I agree the SW strips can be sporty

2007 was a banner year for me with 7 landouts, a personal best, I even
had three in a row, a "hat trick" so I'm told.

2 - At a private sectional noted dirt AP, long strip but cut into the
side of a sizable hill with some pine trees & cross winds to be aware
of. W/ one aero retrieve and one call your buddies / beer retrieve.
About 17 miles from my home AP.
2 - At a sloping farmers field about 12 miles from my Home AP, beer
etc. retrieve.
1 - At a new but previously unknown until I was 1500 over it grass/
dirt strip, but entertaining with a tree on one side in the middle,
irrigation piping along the other side, yes to miss the tree I had to
put my wing over the irrigation pipe and just to keep it interesting
an active tractor blocking one end. The very friendly owner flew me
back to my AP in his plane so I could PU my Truck and self retrieve.
Beers all around! 25 miles from my home AP.
1 - At a sloping grass field sandwiched between a T-storm out flow
and class B, with surface wind 25kts & gusting, 25 miles from my home
AP, no damage to my ship but a very tough day for many.
1 - On a dirt road, that once was also used as a private strip and
noted on the local TP list as such, but it had a few steel posts to
avoid, so good thing I always go for the short roll. This was after
passing on another private strip noted on the TP list as a private
strip possibility but found to have hazards in the middle of the
strip. About 50 miles from my home AP.

All of the above landing locations in my opinion contained the
standard risks of an off airport landing, so I'll count them all as
adding seven more to my next contest entry questionair. No damage to
my ship in any of the above noted landouts but the potential is always
in you rmind. If you're lucky enough to be setting it down on a Big ol
Asphalt 100' wide with a 5,000' runway then it's not a true off
airport landing, but if it's not your home AP then your still buying
the beer etc. so...

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Colorado