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From: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Robert Langridge%CGL)
Newsgroups: net.aviation
Subject: Re: How to land in trees
Message-ID: <389@ucsfcgl.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 14-Nov-84 07:29:28 EST
Article-I.D.: ucsfcgl.389
Posted: Wed Nov 14 07:29:28 1984
Date-Received: Sat, 17-Nov-84 02:15:02 EST
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Reply-To: rl@ucsfcgl.UUCP (Bob Langridge)
Organization: UCSF Computer Graphics Lab
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Summary: 

No personal experience, but a friend of mine once landed his sailplane
(an HP-13) in trees when he ran out of lift while ridge-running the
Alleghenies.  Of course, your wing tip is brushing the trees already,
so you don't have much time to contemplate alternates.  He was unscathed,
and his ship incurred only relatively minor damage.  His advice was: Don't,
but if you have to, do it as slowly as possible.  Fortunately a sailplane
of this class is slower and lighter than a C-152, and you don't have to
worry about gallons of gasoline sloshing about.
							Bob Langridge
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