Worldwide Soaring Turnpoint Exchange
A XC LANDING SITE SELECTION AND PLANNING TOOL: LANDOUT Ver. 2.0
Produced by: CH ENGINEERING, Carl D. Herold
A Commercial Glider Pilot with over 200,000
miles of Glider XC, Competition, and National Record Flying Experience
Announcing a new CD which contains information for assisting the glider pilot
in planning the selection and planning of Glider Landing Sites throughout 12
Western States.
With the assistance of
XC experienced glider pilots, this project was started three years ago.
This project is planned to be a continuing
work in progress, with updates provided as the data is developed.
There is as much emphasis on places
`Not To Land'
at as well as candidate
`Places To Land'
your glider with spans ranging from 13 meters (43
ft) to over 31 meters (102 Ft) wing span.
The EXCEL and TXT
formatted database is sorted by span obstacle width.
As a XC glider pilot you will be able to plan and select from the
database, the safe wing span clearance margins you prefer for you and your
glider to land depart and land safely.
All landing sites with less than 120 foot obstacle clearance have been
visited and tape measured on the ground by CH
ENGINEERING.
For the time being,
this CD is dedicated to safe places to land your glider, not necessarily for
easy ground retrieves. This type of
notation will be in the notes column on the EXCEL spread sheet.
This first edition,
`Version 2.0' CD covers assessed span obstacle width glider landing sites: the
N / M data represent the number of assessed candidate
No Land Sites
(N)
and the
Land Sites (M)
in the 12 western states (175/762).
The LANDOUT Ver. 2.0 database is comprised of:
| Arizona |
8/36 |
|
Nevada |
57/164 |
| California |
73/339 |
|
Oregon |
9/46 |
| Colorado |
5/27 |
|
Utah |
4/17 |
| Idaho |
1/15 |
|
Washington |
8/40 |
| Montana |
5/24 |
|
Wyoming |
1/34 |
| New Mexico |
4/20 |
|
Texas |
0/0 |
The candidate places to land
have assessed obstacle widths exceeding 50 feet or more.
You get to decide if you want your wings to
land and take off over runway lights.
You will know whether the candidate landing site is hard surface or
turf, gravel, dirt, etc.
The
non-landable candidates include Class B airspace, Military only, Restricted
Areas, and un-landable.
The un-landable
site assessments includes too narrow, to rough, abandoned, overgrown, hazards,
bad approaches, exceeding 4% grade, of high density altitude, plowed under,
legal hassles, and etc.
These sites
include dry lakes, usable abandoned airports, and non-seasonal landing areas.
A total of 46 abandoned airports, 91 Dry
Lakes, and 259 undesignated landing sites are assessed as Ns and Ms.
At the present time there
are an additional I have another 2300 landing sites to assess.
The Data provided on the CD contains:
- READ ME.RTF file of explanations, definitions, and
suggested uses for Soaring XC Flight Planning and Point of No return,
and landing site selection planning.
- An
EXCEL 2000 Spreadsheet of 12 Western States:
- California: 73 Not-to-Land sites and 339 landing sites
- Nevada: Not-to-Land Sites and 164 landing sites.
- A text file of the above
provides data sorted by candidate Landing Site Obstacle Width, State, and City
in that order.
- Three types of 3D Rendered TERRAIN
Maps are provided in jpg format.
- With colored cylinders indicating span obstruction width increments
of 10 feet from 60 to over 100 plus feet.
- With the cylinders titled by name
- With Point of No Return (PONR) circles based on planning
- An MS EXCEL and MS WORD reader software
will be on the CD for those who don't have this software.
To Order:
- send your check written to "Carl
Herold LANDOUT" for $32.00 which includes shipping.
Mail your check to Carl Herold, P.O. BOX
5879, Reno, NV 89513.
- Seek an over-the-counter sale at
HIGH COUNTRY SOARING, SOAR MINDEN, SOAR TRUCKEE and PALOMINO SOARING for
$30.00.
For more
information, contact Carl Herold:
Phone: 775-827-3376, or Email: cdherold@charter.net
