Horsies and their owners are a real problem for outlandings. Around the Mt Tambourine area in QLD, you are warned never ever to land in anything other than a designated outlanding area. In the UK they suggest that if a paddock has horses in it and the next best option is flying into the side of a mountain, that you take the mountain option since there's a good chance that you or your heirs won't be able to afford the alternative.
Overflying is another issue altogether. Surely, if you are flying at a legal height (whatever that might be), there is little that the horsie or owner can do about it? Isn't there some figure of 300' AGL somewhere? Back in the early days of trikes and ultralights, we were limited to something less than 300' which meant flying at something like 9" most of the time which was briefly fun from the cockpit side but humans and stock didn't like it at all. In fact I have been roundly told off by a horse owner (sister) for just rigging my glider within sight of a horse in case it spooked them. D _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
