PFL - Why into a field ?

[BackPacker]

The rule of thumb is that if the mud floats in front of your face, you've got it about right; if it plasters itself over the inside of the canopy then you've been too enthusiastic.

I knew it. Those glider pilots are all just slops. Take off from grass, land all over the place, get their feet dirty, hop back in and don't even vacuum the inside of their planes. I bet that if you sample the wing tanks, there's only water coming out too!

[Hyperborean]

Driving through former Yugoslavia some 30 years ago I was puzzled when the road became suddenly straighter, wider and better maintained. I then noticed threshold markings followed about 1km later by a second set. At this point the road returned to "normal". No doubt one could have landed on it but I suspect that this would have provoked serious interest from the security services. I also have a vague memory from the same era of a photograph of an RAF aircraft, jaguar I think, parked under a british motorway bridge. It was an exercise carried out just prior to the opening of a new stretch road.

[RatherBeFlying]

I bet that if you sample the wing tanks, there's only water coming out too!

This time of year, glider pilots add antifreeze

[Shaggy Sheep Driver]

Originally Posted by Whirlybird

I heard once of someone who had engine failure over New York, and glided under control through an office window, taking off the aircraft wings but landing safely, and with only minor injuries. Don't know if it's true or not. Would certain brighten up a bored office worker's day though, wouldn't it?

Well, Whirls, it didn't brighten my day. Here I am sitting on a cloud playing my harp... guess how I got here?
I was figuring out a spreadsheet, sitting at my computer in my office on the 25th floor of the Empire State Building in New York when something made me glance up.
The last thing I saw was PA28, prop stopped, head-on, about 8 feet away and filling my office window....