Originally Posted by
mary meagher
Anyone learning to fly, power or glider, when doing the exercise entitled Emergency Field Landing, would profit from going to a gliding club and flying IN A MOTOR GLIDER with an instructor who is qualified to teach the exercise called CHOOSING A FIELD. Power instructors make a dash at this, but not in a very expert way. The glider pilot who intends to fly cross country MUST be able to choose a field, so this motor glider training intended to teach field landings is the very best and most intense. And it usually costs a lot less than a power lesson.
Go on, guys, when is the last time you SERIOUSLY looked at fields? low down?
We were told a story about this when the CAA did a safety evening at the gliding club. They firstly told glider pilots to shut up, then showed an image of nasty bit black threatening clouds above a stubble field and asked the rest of the audience what they would do. 'turn around'. 'it looks the same all round'. Apparently they were pretty stumped at coming up with the answer of landing in the stubble field.