As an old farm boy, I am very familiar with plowed fields and furrows. If someone was taking bets on your way down, I would have bet that you were going to flip in your back. Down in my part of the country (south Texas) I have lots and lots of paved roads without much traffic, still my first choice despite the experts that say never use a road. We have lots of sugar cane and cotton fields, have no knowledge of success or failure on them. Our "plowed" fields are not conventional plowing, but are grooves and ridges that would surely dump anyone trying to land across the "furrows". I am thinking S CA may do it that way as well..
, --- In [email protected], Linda Abrams <laspr...@...> wrote: > > Don, > > My former flight instructor, a retired 747 captain, confirmed that my > landing *with* the plowed furrows was way, way, WAY more important to > the outcome than anything the wind was doing. As it happened, the > wind was fairly light, 5-7 kts IIRC, but he confirmed that whatever > the wind is doing, go with the furrows. Unfortunately, they've > neglected to engineer the furrow spacing to exactly fit the MLG span > of the Ercoupe...so it's still dicey...but you're better off parallel > than across. Landing with checkride-soft-field-landing procedures, > as slowly as possible as Ed said, and repeating to myself at touch- > down "Keep the nose up, keep the nose up, whateveryoudo keep the nose > UUUUP " also played a major role. I did not let loose of back- > pressure on the yoke until all forward momentum completely stopped. > Even then, the forward momentum stopped *just* as the nosewheel > started to dig in. Yep, a lot of luck, too!! > > The biggest piece of luck was being over fields in a rural area at > all!!! Ever since, I'm so scared of this ever happening over a city > -- and 90% of my flying is around L.A. -- that I have another CFI > taking me up to practice spotting golf courses, ball fields, lesser- > used highways, etc., in an urban landscape. > > Linda > > 3h. Re: Corny Landings > Posted by: "Donald" dongen...@... dongeneda2000 > Date: Wed Aug 25, 2010 3:22 pm ((PDT)) > > Yep, I think a 30 mph headwind would be a great asset about that time. > > My first on the list of things to do if the engine quits, is to > determine which way the wind is blowing. >
