Education of the public is the key here.
Texas outlandings near the Mexican border is an issue at Uvalde, the smaller
ranch strips they are worried about drug traffic - the larger strips with
luxury houses may actually be drug lords!!
One issue in England is that balloonists [who do more damage in general] have a
standard thing of a gift of 50-100 pounds, when a glider then lands in the area
the farmer expects the same. Luckily I have not yet had a bad reaction here in
Australia, usually quite the opposite.
Tom
________________________________
From: Mike Borgelt <[email protected]>
To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia.
<[email protected]>
Sent: Wednesday, 31 August 2011 10:37 AM
Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] Media (sigh)
At 07:51 AM 31/08/2011, you wrote:
At least someone
posted a refutation.
>
>http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/9222550.Glider_pilot_ditches_into_field/
>
>http://www.worcesterstandard.co.uk/2011/08/30/story-Glider-crash-lands-close-to-estate-16147.html
>
>_______________________________________________
The continued social acceptability of outlanding in sailplanes may be in
question here.
There are places, even remote ones, where it isn't at all welcome. There
was a thread on rec.aviation.soaring where they were talking about
ranchers in remote places in the western US. Those guys live out there
because they don't like people much and don't much like the invasion of
their space.
Mike
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