Alan Meyer schrieb:
"Ron Lee" wrote in message
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Landings are more harrowing. Sometimes I have circled the field
at 1,000 or 1,200 feet listening to announcements by power planes
that typically announce their landings from several miles out.
Waiting for no announcements is out of the question. When I get
low I just have to find a slot and take it, whether power is
close or not. I have to be prepared to land on the grass, and
some of our club members have done that, though I have not yet
had to do it.

In my opinion, as an glider pilot you have "the right-of-way over an
airship, aeroplane, or rotorcraft" in this situation.

(http://www.caa.co.ug/docs/Rules%20of...egulations.pdf)

The aeroplane pilots can't expect that you are landing in a field,
because they are lazy about doing a 360.

I know many airfields with opposite traffic patterns for glider and
power traffic. If a glider pilot reports "position for landing", on any
of this airfields, powered aircrafts in final approach have to hurry up
or turn out of pattern if they are to slow, powered aircrafts in base
have to give the right of way to the glider.

But perhabs the airport manager could add an adequate grass strip for
gliders.

Andreas