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1. 12:52 PM - Re: Road Landing (Speedy11@aol.com)
2. 01:11 PM - Re: Re: Road Landing (Lee Logan)
3. 08:56 PM - Re: Re: Road Landing (Rob Ray)
4. 10:08 PM - Rocket Insurance (Tom Gummo)
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| Subject: | Re: Road Landing |
Smokey,
I agree 100%. In fact I have a briefing I give on emergency landings and
I always recommend a road - for many reasons, one of which you mentioned.
There are very safe ways to accomplish a road landing.
Stan Sutterfield
My first choice for forced landings is a paved road rather than a fie
ld. Reason? Every RV forced landing I have helped clean up was on it's back
, trapping the pilot. Growing up around an AG strip, roads were always high
on our list as "alternate airfields" and used often.
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| Subject: | Re: Road Landing |
When landing on roads, what's the trick to avoiding lines (drop lines, power
lines, telephone lines)? They are difficult to see, especially in the
shadows of the trees (a commonplace issue here in the Southeast). Coming in
at a low angle (3-4 degrees would be typical, I would think), lines would
have to be pretty far apart for you not to have to run fairly serious
"gauntlet"of them of one sort or another.
Not arguing, just wondering what the "trick" is...
Lee...
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, <Speedy11@aol.com> wrote:
> Smokey,
> I agree 100%. In fact I have a briefing I give on emergency landings and I
> always recommend a road - for many reasons, one of which you mentioned.
> There are very safe ways to accomplish a road landing.
> Stan Sutterfield
>
>
> My first choice for forced landings is a paved road rather than a fie
> ld. Reason? Every RV forced landing I have helped clean up was on it's back
> , trapping the pilot. Growing up around an AG strip, roads were always high
> on our list as "alternate airfields" and used often.
>
>
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>
> *
>
>
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| Subject: | Re: Road Landing |
Lee,
Growing up around an AG strip the spray pilots always looked for wires, eve
rywhere. The trick on roads is to look for the power poles alongside, there
you will find the where the wires cross. On larger roads and interstates,
only large high tension lines cross as they are required 50 feet vertical f
or large vehicle clearance and are marked. Interstates are actually designa
ted as emergency runways and stressed for load bearing in national crisis s
cenarios, the minimum distance between overpasses is 1 mile, for a reason.
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BTW, how's your new Rocket running?
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Smokey
HR2
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--- On Wed, 11/4/09, Lee Logan <leeloganster@gmail.com> wrote:
From: Lee Logan <leeloganster@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Rocket-List: Re: Road Landing
When landing on roads, what's the trick to avoiding lines (drop lines, powe
r lines, telephone lines)?- They are difficult to see, especially in the
shadows of the trees (a commonplace issue here in the Southeast).- Coming
in at a low angle (3-4 degrees would be typical, I would think), lines wou
ld have to be pretty far apart for you not to have to run fairly serious "g
auntlet"of them of one sort or another.
Not arguing, just wondering what the "trick" is...
Lee...
On Wed, Nov 4, 2009 at 3:42 PM, <Speedy11@aol.com> wrote:
Smokey,
I agree 100%.- In fact I have a briefing I give on emergency landings and
I always recommend a road - for many reasons, one of which you mentioned.
- There are very safe ways to accomplish a road landing.
Stan Sutterfield
-
My first choice for forced landings is a paved road rather than a fie
ld. Reason? Every RV forced landing I have helped clean up was on it's back
, trapping the pilot. Growing up around an AG strip, roads were always high
on our list as "alternate airfields" and used often.
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| Subject: | Rocket Insurance |
Just a heads up.
I just got my insurance from Falcon for my Harmon Rocket II for next
year. It is underwritten by Global-AAU: the EAA program underwriter.
It states that Global will not underwrite new F-1 or Harmon Rockets as
new business.
For Liability ONLY, it increased $125 from last year.
Tom "GummiBear" Gummo
N-561FS 360 great hours.
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