Airports with glider operations
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Airports with glider operations are in general small regional airports.
Most of the time these airports have different landing circuit for powered and unpowered traffic. Hard surface runways are preferred by powered aircraft, while gliders can take off and land on grass landing strips. However during wet seasons and after much rain some landing strips may become soaked and glider operations become difficult because tow planes and gliders need a much longer take-off run to get airborne due to the increased friction of the wet and soft surfaces. It is preferable in that case to conduct the operation from a hard surface runway.
Powered aircrafts land and quickly taxi clear of the runway to let other traffic operate safely, unpowered gliders need assistant and must be moved by ground crew using different types of vehicles or simply by pushing. However with sufficient ground crew, gliders can be quickly moved to avoid conflicts and delays with other aircrafts.
