>> ^heathen:
>> ^jimnms:
As he was landing on a section of the road he'd used several times before.

Wow, is that even legal? Obviously it's fine in an emergency case like this video, but to deliberately land on a road repeatedly - don't small aircraft need to file flight plans too?



It's not legal to just choose to land on a public roadway without a pressing reason. Doing it for convenience's sake wouldn't fly (ba dum tish) if you had to face a judge about it. Of course it sounds like the site was miles from nowhere and he probably never would've been nailed by John Law if he hadn't augered in.

One *might* be allowed to land (or take off) on *private* property without it being a registered aerodrome, in some cases anyway, but without my air law books in front of me I can't be sure.