The I'm going out flying thread 2016

[Bluepilot2003]

Good repurposing of a landfill! I can see how you can get some unpredictable winds. Looks like a fun place to fly. I don't know if I would call it an aircraft carrier though

 

[Xpress]

Hey man that runway can be hairy to land some airplanes on! You should see some of these guys try to land. There's barely enough runway for them to stop.

 

[Bluepilot2003]

Sounds like some cables on the runway and hooks on the planes are in order then as well? Having some dudes around that have problems landing and stopping sounds familiar... we have problems with that at our field which is over 500 ft.

 

[Xpress]

All of the giants can seem to land in half our runway no problem. The slimers have the most issues, might be because of the higher wing loading..

 

[Bluepilot2003]

And I am sure they put their planes down on the first 50 ft of the runway...

 

[3Dchief]

At least they can hit the runway! Most of the pilots at our field can't, they hit the rough ground on the far side and either rip out their landing gear or cartwheel the plane. The other common sight is landing short, again on rough ground ripping out landing gears. It's entertaining, but frustrating that they continue to do it with plane after plane, never learning how to actually hit and use the runway.

 

[Yakman]

The runways are never wide enough or some try to land at 60 mph.

 

[Xpress]

I don't think the goal is to hit the runway but rather to land gently on it

 

[3Dchief]

Even if we had a 1000' x 300' runway, it wouldn't change anything. It's all about depth perception and technique. We have people landing downwind, so not much point in trying to give them pointers for alignment on the runway.

 

[Xpress]

Your club doesn't have general guidelines on taking off and landing into the prevailing winds?