Grass Strips, Landing Technique, etc.

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john smith wrote:
There are examples in US case law where aircraft owners who have landed
at private airfields without permission have had to pay large sums of
money to the property owner to recover their aircraft, disassemble it
and truck it out.

Matt Whiting wrote:
Isn't that how they normally remove gliders? :-)

Depends. If the tow plane can come in and tow them back up and out,
that's the preferred way (cost to the glider pilot? significant)

Not really, if the distance is not great.

; if
their location is such that the tow plane cannot tow them back out, a
crew disassembles the glider and trailers it out (cost to the glider
pilot? an arm and a leg).

No, usually a couple of the pilots friends hook up the trailer and go out
and get him/her. Never know the next time it could be, and probably will
be, one of them.

I've never heard of paying "large sums of
money to the property owner" to recover the glider ... other than
reimbursing for damage caused during the landing. In all the off-field
landing stories I've heard, property owners are generally pretty nice,
and recovery crews have been known to find the pilot and the farmer
sharing a beer.