At my field, the runway ends/begins adjacent to a dirt road, on the dirt road is powerlines, I was taught from the get go to land underneath the power lines. It sure teaches you to keep your approaches tidy. These arent the super duper 100 feet in the air lines either, standard telephone poles, and a pole is 10 feet from the runway edge.

Two incedents my club members recall, one park flyer hitting the wires, and a 40 sized plane exploding from a full speed impact.

We can land from the other side, but often the wind doesnt favor this. Is fun.


Just found pics of our field, didnt know they were out there, check it out: note the realflight pic, can see the pole location!! Also note, is a telephone box about 3 feet high actully in the middle of the beggining of the runway, had some close calls with that.

http://www.uvm.edu/~swarley/pine.htm


Mill