http://www.shga.com/forum/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=5928
XC landings
Greg Angsten - 2018/09/07 17:10:10 UTC
OK, I'll 'fess up. After a glorious flight along the Sierras (as usual), I worked my way down the valley for awhile on light lift before deciding on this nice looking field I'd driven by and admired for years. Yes, it was green and being watered but it didn't look like any real crop was growing there and it seemed flat and the plants low. I saw the rolling watering contraption at the end but decided I had plenty of room to land so I cranked around the near end and went on final. I realized then I was a little high and landing in no wind at all and that I was going to be a little long. Focused totally on the approaching wheeled watering line, I went as far as I could and hit a hard flair. Not quite hard enough to stop me though as I was more focused on the pipe than on where my hands were. I popped up of course and then came down hard still with some forward motion and pounded hard. I ended up a few feet from the pipe alright, but twisted my left arm and elbow going through the frame, ending my flying for the weekend.
Making matters worse, I got up utterly covered in these needle-pronged burrs from head to foot.
My take-away? Don't break your routine of picking your target exactly and setting up an approach accordingly, even if you think you don't need to because maybe you do, and it will help your landing anyway.
...and also, avoid green fields unless you've walked on them.
OK, I'll 'fess up. After a glorious flight along the Sierras (as usual)...
And (as usual) please don't bother giving us a date on this incident.
...I worked my way down the valley for awhile on light lift before deciding on this nice looking field I'd driven by and admired for years.
1. A nice looking FIELD!? Not a nice looking narrow dry riverbed with large rocks strewn all over the place in which you could further hone your spot landing skills?
2. And (as usual) please don't bother giving us the location of this incident.
Yes, it was green and being watered but it didn't look like any real crop was growing there and it seemed flat and the plants low.
Care to give us the available runway length? Just kidding.
I saw the rolling watering contraption...
Center-pivot irrigation water-wheel.
...at the end but decided I had plenty of room to land...
Really, dickhead? I always assume that I'm landing in a postage stamp to stay up to speed on my RLF techniques.
...so I cranked around the near end...
1. Yeah. NEAR the end. That should be close enough.
2. And of course you were as low as possible while carrying plenty of maneuvering speed.
...and went on final.
Good job. Plenty of clearance over the fence at the downwind end.
I realized then I was a little high...
Good time to realize you were a LITTLE high...
...and landing in no wind at all...
...and landing in no wind at all. (And excellent job at clearing that downwind end fence at a really safe altitude.)
...and that I was going to be a little long.
So I pulled in:
- and cranked a hard turn out to the left and came back in line...
- dove to the surface, porpoised back up to a safe glide path...
...with the excess altitude killed and landed uneventfully with plenty of runway left in front of me.
Focused...
...totally...
Totally.
...on the approaching wheeled watering line, I went as far as I could...
And here I was thinking that the situation called for doing the precise opposite.
...and hit a hard flair.
Which you executed just as well as you can spell it.
Not quite hard enough to stop me though...
Back to the training hill to get that flare timing perfected.
...as I was more focused...
...on the pipe than on where my hands were.
On your downpipes at...
http://ozreport.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=27086
Steve Pearson on landings
Steve Pearson - 2012/03/28 23:26:05 UTC
I can't control the glider in strong air with my hands at shoulder or ear height and I'd rather land on my belly with my hands on the basetube than get turned downwind.
...shoulder or ear height where you can't control your glider in dead air at the end of a mile long, flat, wide open runway.
I popped up of course and then came down hard still with some forward motion...
OK, no big deal. So you then rolled to a safe stop on your eight inch pneumatic Finsterwalders.
...and pounded hard.
Oh. No wheels.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=29884
Hat Creek Power Whack
Mike Bilyk - 2013/09/07 17:07:26 UTC
Wheel landings are for girls!
Wheel landings are for girls.
I ended up a few feet from the pipe alright...
Not the one that mattered.
...but twisted my left arm and elbow going through the frame, ending my flying for the weekend.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=22176
Paragliding Collapses
Jim Rooney - 2011/06/12 13:57:58 UTC
Most common HG injury... spiral fracture of the humerus.
Making matters worse, I got up utterly covered in these needle-pronged burrs from head to foot.
This is a big reason you need to execute foot landings on XC flights. If you roll in on the wheels you can get utterly covered in those needle-pronged burrs from head to foot.
My take-away?
Yeah, let's have it. Some of us may not yet be totally saturated in your astronomical cluelessness.
Don't break your routine of picking your target exactly and setting up an approach accordingly, even if you think you don't need to because maybe you do, and it will help your landing anyway.
Yep.
http://www.hanggliding.org/viewtopic.php?t=21088
What you wish you'd known then?
Doug Doerfler - 2011/03/02 05:24:44 UTC
Nothing creates carnage like declaring a spot landing contest.
When you don't have the advantage of an actual old Frisbee in the middle of an LZ imagine a small patch of grass or bare soil as one and nail it no matter what.
...and also, avoid green fields unless you've walked on them.
In other words... Don't ever fly XC any significant distance. (Really makes ya wonder how sailplanes are ever able to do anything.)
Keep up the great work, Grebloville focused total moron.