Thanks, Chris. You are correct. However, even near an airport, they
must watch their altitude, though those high-aspect-ratio wings provide
a very low sink rate. We recently had one get too low on an approach to
the municipal airport, which has long runways, and he ended up in a
tree. The tree was in a flat valley, and was below runway elevation. :-[
Jim Nichols
Tullahoma, TN USA
On 7/28/2013 3:29 PM, Chris Barker wrote:
> I suspect, Piers, that Jim meant that the glider was low if he wasn't about
> to land (or had just taken off). According to the papers (admittedly not a
> very reliable source) the glider was operating from Portmoak, near Kinross.
> But I can't find an online source for the report, which is a bit strange.
>
> I think that the report is the only way to discover what really happened,
> since all the newpapers report this rubbish manoeuvre at low level by the
> Tornado.
>
> Chris
>
> On 28 Jul 2013, at 21:07, "Piers Hemy" <piers@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> Umm, every flight, glider or not, involves flying at 250ft, surely. Just
>> after take-off, and just before landing! There is a flying club within about
>> 3 miles of the location of the incident, used by Cairngorm GLIDING Club
>> amongst others. So certainly a likely area to find gliders at 250ft. And, as
>> it happens, the airfield is only a mile away from Feshiebridge Lodge,
>> location of "The RAF Highland Activities centre"
>>
>> http://www.feshiebridgelodge.co.uk/
>>
>> Oops!
>>
>> And, by the way, gliders are not the only aerial hazard at Feshiebridge.
>> Look out also for James Bond antics capturing executive jets in midflight.
>> I'm pretty sure that the relevant sequence in Skyfall was filmed over Glen
>> Feshie.
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