Originally Posted by
Jonzarno
Gliders are designed to land in fields, tricycle gear aircraft aren’t. Also gliders by their nature don’t carry fuel.
If I had tried to land I would definitely have ended up inverted with 250 litres of avgas for company.
During my time instructing on Bulldogs, I always kept that possibility at the back of my mind. A low wing, sliding canopy aircraft will be extremely difficult, if not impossible to vacate in that situation. I never let my students even attempt to carry out PFLs to ploughed or other obviously soft surfaced fields in case the engine didn’t pick up for the go-around. Although we regularly practiced abandonment drills a flew with personal back pack parachutes the published minimum height for the chute opening was 800 feet.
BRS is a great idea in situations like the one you found yourself in! Well managed, too!