On Tuesday, December 8, 2015 at 7:45:39 AM UTC-7, gkemp wrote:
On Sunday, December 6, 2015 at 7:37:33 AM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
I found a few mentions of Canopy Wire Deflector Bars in the RAS Archives. One said that the deflectors were mandatory in the Netherlands. What has been experience and what is current thinking? Links and search terms appreciated as I could not find much with initial google search.

Temporary electric livestock fences are a known landout hazard in my area.

Jerry Robertson hit a fence between two railroad tie posts in a libelle, in the 1971 or 1923 Nationals in Marfa, Texas, tore his wings off and severely lacerated head and face. Next time he flew he had bars under his canopy to deflect wires.

gkemp
How quickly you forget. I was working on records in Utah, landed my 1-35 in a field, misjudged a ditch across the center, hit the barbed wire fence. Broke the canopy, one strand hit me in the face and broke, one, ended up in my mouth and one across my throat, 9 stitches. If it hadn't been a Schweizer, with skid down and hitting the edge of the road, the barbed wire would have killed me. Still thought that was very unusual and never but in Wire Deflector Bars.

gkemp "NK"