Charles Ethridge wrote on 5/30/2020 12:34 PM:
Thanks for all your responses.

Reading them over, my take on this is that there is no truly "safe" way to landout in fields or unknown private airports. By "safe" I mean safe for you AND for the glider. I'm not rich enough to afford to keep having a broken glider fixed.

This got me wondering about a couple of things though:

1. Is there an area in the USA where there is a gliderport where pilots fly lots of cross country and which, at certain times of the year also has large, safe fields to land along the known cross country routes? Since I'm semi-retired perhaps I could move there for a summer, just to get my badges and cross country experience.

2. What about the concept I read about (forgot where) about thermaling over a KNOWN landable airport until gaining enough altitude to reasonably get to the next known landable airport? That seems like it might be doable here in north-central Georgia, where there are so many decent uncontrolled airports.

Ben

What books have you read about XC flying?

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Eric Greenwell - Washington State, USA (change ".netto" to ".us" to email me)
- "A Guide to Self-Launching Sailplane Operation"
https://sites.google.com/site/motorg...ad-the-guide-1