Bezmiechowa glider airfield

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Bezmiechowa
Lądowisko Bezmiechowa glider airfield
Stele at the edge of the site
Characteristics
Coordinates

49 ° 31 '18 "  N , 22 ° 24' 38"  E Coordinates: 49 ° 31 '18 "  N , 22 ° 24' 38"  E

Height above MSL 489 m (1604  ft )
Basic data
opening before 1929
operator Akademicki Ośrodek Szybowcowy (AOS)
Runways
007 / - runway 600 m × 60 m
grass
187 / - runway 600 m × 60 m
grass
192 / - runway 250 m × 60 m
grass



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The airfield Bezmiechowa ( Polish Lądowisko Bezmiechowa without ICAO ) is a Segelfluggelände of Akademicki Ośrodek Szybowcowy (AOS; Academic gliding Community) Technical University of Rzeszów (Politechnika Rzeszowska) near the village Bezmiechowa Górna rural community of Lesko in Subcarpathian Voivodeship in Poland . The course is located eight kilometers northeast of Lesko and about twenty kilometers southeast of Żywiec .

The airfield is located on the slope of a mountain in the Góry Słonne (Sanoker Mountains) , is approved for roll start and has some special features.

General

The mountainous environment allows not only thermal flights but also slope flights , but on the other hand, because it is wooded, offers only limited outdoor landing possibilities .

The airfield extends over a height of 390 to 620 meters. Next to the top of the mountain is the hangar and the main building of the AOS. The place is approved for aircraft up to 5.7 tons according to visual flight rules (VFR, PPR ). The nearest commercial airport is Arłamów (EPAR) 17 kilometers north at Wola Korzeniecka , next Segelfluggelände is located 11 kilometers to the south in Weremień also in the field of Gmina Lesko. There are several restricted flight areas 30 to 50 kilometers away.

Runways and runways

View from lane 1 to lane 3 and the main building (top center)

The airfield has two grass runways with a length of 600 and 250 meters. They are located on the slope of a 630 meter ( AMSL ) high mountain.

Slope 1 - lane 1

Runway 01 (007 °) serves as a runway for gliders and powered aircraft . It is 600 meters long, is on the top of a hill and therefore has a difference in altitude of 419 to 489 meters. You land against the slope of the mountain.

This run is also approved for winch starts, with the start winch being posted on top of the mountain. The aircraft must reach a height of at least 730 meters when taking off in order to fly safely over the mountain. If the altitude is lower, it is no longer possible to return to the landing field.

Slope 1 - lift 2

Runway 19L (187 °) serves as a runway for self-launching aircraft.

Slope 2 - lift 3

Runway 19P (192 °) serves as a runway for gliders. It is approved for aircraft towing, winch, rubber rope and roll starts. The track has a height difference of 614 by 544 meters over a length of 250 meters. If the rope breaks or the start is aborted, you must land on the lower runway. The start winch is posted next to it. The return transport to the mountain can be done via a "transport winch". Aircraft towing is only carried out in exceptional cases, as the aircraft gain speed very quickly on the steep runway.

Hang-gliders and paragliders may take off from this runway in coordination with the glider operations.

Even with today's aircraft, the great gradient allows a safe taxi or "gravity start". Here the pilot lets the aircraft roll down a narrow, paved path until it has reached take-off speed. Prerequisites for this type of take-off are sufficient wind speed and wind from the south.

Another area where the taxi start is still carried out regularly is the Jeżów Sudecki (EPJS) glider airfield near Jelenia Góra (Hirschberg) , the former Grunau gliding school .

history

PWS-101 with the rubber rope pulling crew
Salamandra drawn by horse

The course was laid out in the 1920s by aviation enthusiastic students from the Lviv Technical University (Politechnika Lwowska). In 1929 the first gliding competition took place in Bezmiechowa. A year later the Lviv Aeroclub (Aeroklub Lwowski) founded a gliding school. The planes were often transported back to the launch site by horses. Several record flights were made from here in the late 1930s, including a long distance flight of 577.8 kilometers in 1938.

Since a fatal accident between two pilots who collided with two Salamandra machines on October 4, 1936 at a height of 400 meters above ground, further fatal accidents have occurred on the site.

See also

Web links

Commons : Bezmiechowa glider airfield  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Lotnisko.
  2. INSTRUKCJA OPERACYJNA p. 7f.
  3. INSTRUKCJA OPERACYJNA p. 5f.
  4. INSTRUKCJA OPERACYJNA p. 6f.
  5. INSTRUKCJA OPERACYJNA p. 5f.
  6. Stanisław Majerski: Początki Lotnictwa polskiego we Lwowie. (accessed April 18, 2019; Polish)
  7. ^ Gazeta Lwowska : Śmierć dwóch pilotów w katastrofie szybowcowej. (No. 231 of October 8, 1936, p. 3; Polish)