Flight Crew Private
Situational Awareness
Deviation / Discrepancy - Procedural Published Material / Policy
Flight Crew Executed Go Around / Missed Approach; Flight Crew Took Evasive Action; Flight Crew Diverted
Environment - Non Weather Related
Flying along looking for landing locations during a back country flying. Came across a set of power lines while operating at a very low altitude and airspeed while making an approach to land on a small playa/lakebed. I made the determination that it would be more hazardous to make abrupt control input and try to either climb over the lines or turn to avoid them. I elected to increase power and abort my landing on the small playa and fly under the lines. So I'm reporting this here because I think this was a hazard coming this close to an incident. A contributing factor was the sunlight at the time was at my rear and creating a glare inside my cockpit that made the power lines difficult to see. Also there was wind blowing up playa dust and the dust accumulated on the windscreen causing a distraction reduction in visibility outside the cockpit. As a result of this close call; I terminated my flight early and returned to the flying.
A Carbon Cub pilot reported sunlight and blowing dust obscuring view of powerlines; resulted in taking evasive action.