This is really good advice Mike and something I've tried to teach pre-XC pilots. While driving to the field (and I have taken detours just for this exercise) look at the fields from the ground, walk some of them if you like, and then when you are in the air look at them again and compare your mental notes. For instance ask yourself, from the air would I land on that? Sometimes the answer is yes when you know from walking it that there is no way you would.
And I agree about those fields in North Island. Some scary ones there!!!! David -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike Borgelt Sent: Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:31 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [aus-soaring] Field Landings Web Page. At 09:57 AM 25/09/03 +1000, you wrote: >I must admit I wasn't really thinking of the "Field Landings Web Page" >as a guide to current fields conditions, more an example of what fields >looks like from the air at various stages in the cycle. I didn't mean >to give the impression that I was demanding the GFA create such a web >page or that I was unprepared to try and organise somthing locally. >If people just start taking some photos of fields from the air, same field >on the ground as the opportunity arises and throw them up on the web >somewhere that would be a start. >I think a collection of such photos with appropriate comments >would be a useful supplement for use with outlanding training. >Except for the Field Landings Web Page I hadn't come across anything like >this before. > >As a neophyte who has just been doing their outlanding training and >checking I think I can use more information on suitable paddock surface >selection. > > >Greg O'Sullivan >[EMAIL PROTECTED] When you drive to the gliding site check out the fields either side of the road(better if you have someone else drive). This is a good exercise. Scary on the north island of NZ between Matamata and Auckland. I found none I would really care for on a few occasions. The CASA education unit people are trying to develop CD-ROMS to develop pilot judgement by showing "out of the cockpit" views and when to make decisions and what they should be. Much the same ought to be able to be done for glider outlandings and even launch emergencies. Might be a use for some of the $1 million the GFA has in the bank. Might even pay off in fewer broken gliders, injuries and deaths. The CASA guys are doing a good job in pilot education. Mike Borgelt Instruments - manufacturers of quality soaring instruments phone Int'l + 61 746 355784 fax Int'l + 61 746 358796 cellphone Int'l + 61 428 355784 Int'l + 61 429 355784 email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: www.borgeltinstruments.com -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
