Small Aircraft; Low Wing; 1 Eng; Fixed Gear
Flight Crew Air Transport Pilot (ATP); Flight Crew Instrument; Flight Crew Multiengine
Flight Crew Last 90 Days 14.1; Flight Crew Total 11253.2; Flight Crew Type 1100
Situational Awareness; Confusion; Communication Breakdown; Workload
Conflict NMAC
General None Reported / Taken
Environment - Non Weather Related; Procedure; Human Factors
Approaching BVO for [a] fly-in; I recognized the potential for a crowd trying to land on Runway 17. I therefore circled to the west waiting for the congestion to die down. Once it seemed to be slacking off I entered mid-field right downwind for 17. On final; I saw that the airplane I was following started a go-around due to another airplane on a landing roll-out on Runway 35 (which I don't recall hearing on the radio). I also started a go-around; and with the help of another voice on the radio; we decided it was high time to start landing on 35 instead of 17. (Winds were out of the north; light; but predicted to increase in strength later). I saw that most of the others in the pattern were still in a flow for 17; but the radio talk still convinced me it was a good time to enter a short left base for 35. I could see one plane on final for 35; somewhere between 2 and 4 miles out. I'd also heard a report of a glider being cut loose above the airport in the same general time period. I didn't see the glider during my short left base turn; and thought my only traffic problem was the 2 plus mile final airplane; which I'd be well in front of. As I was flaring to touchdown; here comes the glider off my right wing; landing on the grass runway; which was immediately on the right side of 35. I'm not sure he ever saw me; and I didn't see him until I was practically on the ground. I can only surmise that he used his spoilers to drop from above me; while staying parallel and slightly right of me. I must not have looked up enough to see him; being also shaded by my ball cap bill. On hindsight; I do recall hearing the glider call final. I wish I'd broken out of the pattern and held west again; until the glider was definitely down and out of everyone's hair before poking my nose into the pattern again. Besides my temporary blindness for the glider; I'd also say it was bad judgment to be flying a glider into a high traffic situation with airplanes.
A pilot landing on BVO Runway 35 had a near miss with a glider landing on the adjacent grass.