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Bert Willing wrote:

There are no worldwide standards but rather local procedures (depending on
the terrain) with daily adjustments (depending on wind conditions).

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Bert Willing

ASW20 "TW"

"Janos Bauer" a écrit dans le message de
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If standard rules (e.g. landing straight ahead after this low cable
break) had been performed nothing seriously would have happened.

What are the standards altitudes for such incident? Here are the list
I learnt: 50 straight landing, 50&100 one 180 degree turn, 180 two
turns or small circle. Of course in strong wind I would increase these
values.


I had a reminder last summer during a check flight on a new field, and
then tried to pass the message to my first students during my first flights
as instructor: as long as landing straight ahead is possible, do it, don't
try anything else. If it is not possible, then you should have a height
sufficient for an abbreviated pattern. What I would like to add is some
rule of thumb for estimating if landing straight ahead is possible, not
based on looking on instruments if possible, like "First push the stick
in order to reach a normal flight attitude and speed. Then if you can see
the last 300m of the runway, you can land ahead". The value of 300m is
of course subject to discussion and change. The advantage of such a strategy
is that it could be well planned before take-off by having a well-known ground
feature mark the point you must see for deciding to land straight ahead.