GLIDING INTERNATIONAL -- RESEARCH

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 09:07:32 -0800, john firth wrote:

You do not have to fly to evaluate fields.
As you drive to the airport, briefly, survey the fields and assess them
for suitability; ie length, slope, crop, hazards; this has been one of
my habits for 60 years.

That depends a lot on where you live: if most roadsides have only wire
fences or crash barriers, that works, but in places where there's
extensive ribbon development or major roads have either walls or rows of
trees on both sides to reduce road noise, its a bit harder.

The majority of my drive from home to the glider field is on roads
bounded by trees or hedges, and traffic is generally heavy enough to make
staring through farm gateways rather a bad idea.


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Martin | martin at
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Now that would be irony..... get killed in a car wreck due to inattention caused by trying to scout landing fields so as not to kill ones self on an off field landing lol.

On Sun, 10 Nov 2019 10:19:57 -0800, uneekcowgirl wrote:

Now that would be irony..... get killed in a car wreck due to
inattention caused by trying to scout landing fields so as not to kill
ones self on an off field landing lol.

Actually, its not that bad. Our field is surrounded by crops of various
types - typically maize(corn), cereals, setaside or rapeseed(canola), so
the final half mile of entrance track lets us assess crop state, and once
in the air, the green&growing/ripe/harvested field split is obvious and
setaside is generally OK since its formerly ploughed land thats been left
to grow weeds., i.e. flat surface with stalky stuff on it. Big Scotch
thistles would be a problem but they're easily seen from the air if
they're on setaside fields.


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Martin | martin at
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