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From: jnaus@netcom.com (John Naus)
Subject: Re: landing on highway?
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Mike Regish (mregish@map.com) wrote:
: Not that it would apply in an emergency situation, but my FBO has a "no
: grass landings" clause in the renter's agreement. Guess I won't get to
: practice any.

You should find a place that will allow grass landings.  One of the best
lessons that I had while training was to go to a actual grass landing
strip and practice soft field takeoffs and landings.  I learned more about
soft field in that lesson than I ever did doing "fake" soft fields on a
runway.  Another lesson I would suggest is to find a long runway that
you can practice loss of power on takeoff.  We went to a practice runway
that was 11000 ft and would takeoff and climb to say 300 ft pull the 
throttle and practice landing straight ahead.  Again you learn alot
more by actually doing.

: --
: Mike Regish
: HLAviation wrote in message
: <19981111204934.08649.00000372@ng-fd2.aol.com>...
: >>I don't know but I wonder if it's because so
: >>many pilots never land on grass, were even forbidden to land
: >>on grass, so pavement looks like "place to land plane"
: >
: >Give me 400' of grass and I'll survive the end.

I agree.  There are probably alot of old timers or glider pilots
that are reading this thread and scratching their heads.  Once you
actually do some grass landings you realize that they no big deal.
Makes me wonder how many pilots that have landed on highways pass
perfectly good fields because they were never trained to land on
grass?


				John

