On Aug 14, 3:35*pm, "Jon Woellhaf" wrote:
wrote

... I've even seen

cases of simultaneous takeoffs and landings in opposite directions,
with the planes/gliders passing on the ground in the middle of their
respective takeoff and landing rolls.

Yikes!

Yikes for sure. That happened at the old Issaquah, WA gliderfield -
there were two commercial glider operations there, one at each end of
a nice grass strip, and each disliked the other. So when the winds
were light - you had to be heads up, to say the least! Plus there was
a jump school, so occasionnally you had to add a student under a chute
to the mix, and worst of all was the ultralight driver who would
wander around the pattern ...

Sigh, that was a fun place - always a crowd of onlookers ( I wonder
why!!). Shopping center now, of course.

Kirk
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