Maydays this weekend

In article .com,
Jay Honeck wrote:
Note to self: don't put it into a corn field in late summer if I have a
choice!

True, but you for SURE don't want to choose a bean field instead. The
beans grow so densely that you'll land in 'em and they will tangle your
gear and stop you just like *that* -- or so the gray heads tell us.

I really wonder about this bit of wisdom. I'd heard it too while
hanging around the FBO. A week before my checkride I was up with an
instructor doing maneuvers when we lost the engine. We put down in a
soybean field (August, so they were plenty grown). It had rained for
three days previously so the ground was very soft. The nose gear
collapsed and we ended up inverted. I walked our landing path and you
could see where the nose gear gradually dug in deeper. There weren't
any bean vines stuck in the wheels or landing gear so I'm skeptical
about the whole "beans grabbing the gear" legend. Mud is what did us
in.


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Scott Post