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Old 20th Mar 2016, 16:07
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Heady1977
 
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Currently I have no experience regarding landing powered aircraft into fields... just gliders.

Therefore, I cannot comment regarding landing tricycle or tail-dragger or low wing or high wing powered aircraft into fields - especially ploughed or tilled fields.

During WW2 the Moon Squadrons use to fly Lysanders (high-wing, tail-dragger) into french fields to insert or extract SOE operatives. Some fields were "prepared" others not. Ripping off undercarriages or bursting tires (and then the resulting evade & escape) happened from time to time.

The UK BGA has extensive resources regarding glider field landings including tutorials and briefing sheets which are publicly available.

For the purposes of cross-discipline knowledge sharing. This information might help someone make survivable decisions landing a powered aircraft into a field one day. So for completeness - I provide the links below.

BGA Field Landing Briefing

https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...ding-briefing/
Field Crops – for Glider Pilots

Website describing and showing photographs from the air of 9 different crops and discussing their suitability or otherwise for field landings.
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...ider-pilots-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 1

Introduction; The process of field selection; Size, slope, surface
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-1-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 2

Obstacles on the approach; The effect of wind; The biggest is not always the best!
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-2-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 3

Chapter 3 - Slope: identifying and dealing with it...
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-3-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 4

Surface, early spring to mid-season; What's growing, can we land on it?; Winter and spring cereal crops; Tram-lines and tractor wheelings; Oil-seed rap; Introducing grass fields.
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-4-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 5

Grass for silage, hay and pasture.
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-5-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 6

Horses, stud farms and gallops; Sheep; Cattle and stock-fences; Identifying fences and avoiding landing across colour changes
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-6-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 7

Overhead wires; Spotting the poles; Approaching harvest
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-7-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Chapter 8

Harvest time, stubble and straw; Random tractor tracks; Land along the direction of cut; After the harvest; Happy landings
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...l-chapter-8-2/
Field Landing Tutorial – Entire Video

Field Landing Tutorial produced by the Ted Lysakowsky Trust
https://members.gliding.co.uk/librar...ntire-video-2/
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