[NSRCA-discussion] Landing zone

[Chad Northeast]

Not missing anything Georgie :)  The FAI landing zone is huge, most 
ultralights should be able to at set down in it :)

Funny thing, in Poland with the brutal wind a few guys almost missed it!

Chad

george w. kennie wrote:
> 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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