[NSRCA-discussion] Landing zone

[george w. kennie]

It's a miracle that I'm not more confused than I am what with the many disparities between the AMA protocols and the FAI stuff. Just when you think you are sure of a specific rule, you discover that someone is raising a question based on a different genre. At Joe Walker's reference I decided to see if I could find the landing zone specs and realizing the original question came from Jay I dug out my FAI stuff. Took me a few hours, but it's in there and the jist of it is..........." if you're flying on a runway that's less than 30 meters wide, the landing zone will be determined by a circle of 30 meters diameter. If the runway is greater than 30 meters wide, then the landing zone will be determined by two lines 100 meters apart."  I am assuming that this should imply 50 meters either side of center. That's 164 feet on each side of center guys. I've always heard it rumored that "pattern flyers can't land". Could this be International confirmation of the rumor?
It appears, to me, that the International stringency requirements suddenly become extremely lenient in this area or am I missing something?
Georgie
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