All of this is a matter of conditioning for the horses. I used to take my horse gliding. Not kidding. He was great for clearing the sheep off the runway. He would stand at the launch point and watch the gliders launch and land. Then again, this horse lived in a paddock at North Glenelg alongside the main runway at Adelaide Airport. So gliders - pfffttt he'd seen bigger.
Seriously though as a horse person as well as a glider person it annoys me that many horse people don't take the time to properly train and condition their horses to anything and spend their lives creeping around their horses in case something sets them off. Better to make the horse braver and smarter. See www.parellinaturalhorsetraining.com . Pat Parelli is a really nice guy and very sensible - and I owe him a flight in a glider. _Cath On 26/03/2012, at 12:06 PM, Ron Fox wrote: > Location, location - The Dublin Gliding Club is over the fence from the Irish > National Equestrian Center. The club enforced a rule of never overflying the > Equestrian Center if there was an event on and not to use airbrakes in the > vicinity of horses. Made for interesting approaches when it was a southerly. > Ron > > On 26/03/2012, at 11:16 AM, DMcD <slutsw...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Horsies and their owners are a real problem for outlandings. Around >> the Mt Tambourine area in QLD, you are warned never ever to land in >> anything other than a designated outlanding area. In the UK they >> suggest that if a paddock has horses in it and the next best option is >> flying into the side of a mountain, that you take the mountain option >> since there's a good chance that you or your heirs won't be able to >> afford the alternative. >> >> Overflying is another issue altogether. Surely, if you are flying at a >> legal height (whatever that might be), there is little that the horsie >> or owner can do about it? Isn't there some figure of 300' AGL >> somewhere? >> >> Back in the early days of trikes and ultralights, we were limited to >> something less than 300' which meant flying at something like 9" most >> of the time which was briefly fun from the cockpit side but humans and >> stock didn't like it at all. In fact I have been roundly told off by a >> horse owner (sister) for just rigging my glider within sight of a >> horse in case it spooked them. >> >> D >> _______________________________________________ >> Aus-soaring mailing list >> Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net >> To check or change subscription details, visit: >> http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring > > _______________________________________________ > Aus-soaring mailing list > Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net > To check or change subscription details, visit: > http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list Aus-soaring@lists.internode.on.net To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
