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

Funny. At my club, if we have a glider hooked up and ready to take off
on the pavement, and another glider on final for the parallel grass, we
will usually hold the takeoff until the landing glider is down and
stopped just to make sure everybody has the maximum number of options in
case Bad Stuff ensues.

The past is a different country, for sure.

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