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Glider pilot reported landing in a field when weather conditions made a return to the field impossible.
| Attributes | |
| ACN | 1370708 |
| Time | |
| Date | 201607 |
| Local Time Of Day | 1201-1800 |
| Place | |
| Locale Reference | ZZZ.Airport |
| State Reference | US |
| Environment | |
| Flight Conditions | VMC |
| Light | Daylight |
| Aircraft 1 | |
| Make Model Name | Sail Plane |
| Operating Under FAR Part | Part 91 |
| Route In Use | None |
| Flight Plan | None |
| Person 1 | |
| Function | Single Pilot |
| Qualification | Flight Crew Private Flight Crew Glider |
| Experience | Flight Crew Last 90 Days 4 Flight Crew Total 289 Flight Crew Type 129 |
| Events | |
| Anomaly | Deviation - Procedural Published Material / Policy Inflight Event / Encounter Weather / Turbulence |
Narrative:
Was thermaling west of [the airport]. At 2;000 ft; I could not see the field. I followed the bearing on my inflight computer toward [the airport]. Found large amounts of sink. At 1;500 AGL made call to unicom that I could not see the airport and would not make it back. At 1;000 feet I selected a field and made a normal pattern. Landed in bean field - no damage to self; aircraft or field (crop). In hindsight; I would perhaps have begun heading back to [the airport] at a higher altitude. Also; I should have called 911 to let them know it was not a crash situation and merely a land out.
Original NASA ASRS Text
Title: Glider pilot reported landing in a field when weather conditions made a return to the field impossible.
Narrative: Was thermaling west of [the airport]. At 2;000 ft; I could not see the field. I followed the bearing on my inflight computer toward [the airport]. Found large amounts of sink. At 1;500 AGL made call to UNICOM that I could not see the airport and would not make it back. At 1;000 feet I selected a field and made a normal pattern. Landed in bean field - no damage to self; aircraft or field (crop). In hindsight; I would perhaps have begun heading back to [the airport] at a higher altitude. Also; I should have called 911 to let them know it was not a crash situation and merely a land out.
Data retrieved from NASA's ASRS site and automatically converted to unabbreviated mixed upper/lowercase text. This report is for informational purposes with no guarantee of accuracy. See NASA's ASRS site for official report.