Wheels

[MikeLake]

... "Hopefully you're not describing the setup in which you broke your wrist (but you probably are)."

Yes indeed poor judgement (and some bad luck) has put me out for the rest of the flying season.
My cast comes off in a few hours and I can't begin to tell you how much I'm looking forward to not having this smelly, grubby, itchy thing as a permanent fixture.

The landing options weren't good with the wind at 45% and I opted for more or less the same technique as you describe Tad.

I came in fast over T/O by the parked gliders flying down the runway as far from the rapeseed as I could. Finally, and turning into wind slightly, the ground speed seemed slow enough for a fairly easy run-out landing.
Almost at the point of touchdown (or I might have already had some ground contact) the nose and left wing popped up, I gained a few feet and turned 90% to the runway. I can't remember much else but I must have been shifting for all I was worth as I went through the left upright (and damaged the right one a bit).

With hindsight my best option would have been a flared landing on top of the wheat, into wind and well away from the rapeseed.
Steve, I think a belly landing into the wheat would risk a nose in with even just a little ground speed so yes, you're dead as well.

They say most accidents happen close to home and this is a classic example of the delusion of safety due to familiarity. Had this been an out-landing I wouldn't have picked this landing site in 100 years!

[spark]

wheels for Happy Acres putting green LZs, not so good for narrow dry riverbeds with large rocks strewn all over the place ...

http://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7464/15777528207_7c6928ba6f_o.jpg

[Tad Eareckson]

Yeah, but people who choose to regularly land in the latter tend to have frequently interrupted, short, expensive, unpleasant flying careers. Wheels, Happy Acres putting greens... Win/Win.

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wheels for Happy Acres putting green LZs, not so good for narrow dry riverbeds with large rocks strewn all over the place ...

http://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7464/15777528207_7c6928ba6f_o.jpg

That wing looks great. Are you going to continue flying suprone?

[spark]

Maybe suprone in the future ... my back has improved enough to handle prone now.

This is a video of the current configuration.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zogDnBilAAw

[NMERider]

Here are a few I compiled...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QBdxeZo8EPo

[Tad Eareckson]

Thanks for those last two videos, guys. Wheel landings are joys to behold - and do.

Jonathan...

Sorry your post moldered invisible for so long as "unapproved". There's a little waiting for approval icon:



that appears to a Moderator that I always manage to miss that Steve usually manages to catch and do something about - as was the case yesterday. (And it didn't help any that I was out last night.)

I'd done everything I could think of to turn off all the obnoxious little switches that impede actions and privileges of newly activated members and we seemed to be running smoothly for a long time. But I think there must've been a software revision that tripped things up.

Dove into the Administration Control Panel once again last night and found another switch: "Remove from Newly Registered" (group). Did that one for you (and a bunch of other legitimate individuals who've never posted and aren't likely to) and hopefully the approval impediment is behind us.

[Steve Davy]

Wheel landings are for Girls!

[Tad Eareckson]

Plagiarist.

[birukobu]

Wheel landings are for Girls!

That is wrong.
Here is my student, her name is Masha)))

Маша на Атласе
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=POd1vZlGTnI
Nikolay Dikiy - 2015/03/07
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