Actually a gaggle of snowbirds heading north.

Originally Posted by JohnN
Also, my wife saw one of them landed just off Buena Vista down around O'Dell around 4pm or so, and appears it was a Villager (ie: not a young kid!)

Originally posted by Dirigo
"that one was probably the one we saw land in back of our house in one of the Rapid Inflitration Basin Systems. It was a green hang glider. The fellow jumped up and made tracks to Buena Vista. It was pretty cool to see him land."

Hi everyone ,


I had a good laugh reading this thread - I am the pilot that landed in your leach field (didn't realize it had such a fancy name).

That day there was a competition that had some of the best pilots in the world and our task went pretty much straight over The Villages. I was 40+ miles from where I towed up in Clermont. We use ultralight planes to tow us up to about 2,000 feet, then we catch thermal lift to climb higher. We glide between thermals and try to find the next one so we can keep going. That day we got up to about 5,000 ft, which is why it was hard to pick out what you were seeing. I ran out of lift over your community and it looked like the leach field was the best bet for a landing. I didn't want to disturb the golfers, though it might have been a good story for them. Any rate, I realized the open field was not exactly the perfect choice as I saw the spray heads. I landed on a berm in the field that was smooth and dry. I flew about 43 miles overall.

Any rate - thought it would be good to solve the mystery. I looked at my track log for that day and I landed at 4:05. I'll take the "not a young kid" observation as a compliment:laugh: