Tony R, have you noticed that most a/c these days are not tailwheels. What would you do with a rapidly approaching ditch at the end of the field you have just landed in, remember your foolish instructors advice or take the common sense precaution of respectfully using the brakes.
Probably forgotten by most of you is that many scheduled airline services started off grass runways, Burnaston, Sywell, Jersey.
At Burnaston one day a DC3 landed long on wet grass and went straight across the A38, stopping in the transport cafe car park!
Three problems here 1. wet grass 2. landing deep 3. Rutting, something not mentioned here but a major consideration on grass. At burnaston serious rutting had been caused by the Canadair argonauts landing on the grass while training and positioning.
Last edited by whatunion; 12th June 2004 at 10:14.