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>> ^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.

>> ^rychan:
I think this guy did a good job. No injuries, no damage to the aircraft. He had a view of the road when he made his decision so he could see about traffic and power lines.

Power lines are not easy to see from the air, they're not even that easy to see from the ground. Next time you're out driving around, take note of how close you actually are to a power line before you can clearly see it. Then ask yourself if you could avoid that if you were in a plane with no engine doing 60-70mph.

Worrying about damage to the aircraft should the last thing on your mind when making an emergency landing. Many pilots are killed or injured because they try to save their aircraft.

I just read about this on some news site. In the article I just read, he said they had just taken off and were at 500 ft. when the engine quit.

In the video, the passenger points to the left and asks "can you make that field," and the pilot says "I don't think I can make it." Then he restarts the engine and turns AWAY from the field and directly TOWARD a populated area. Next he continues flying toward the city rather than turning back to the airport they just took off from or a safer place to ditch the plane.

I've never been in an emergency situation like this, but that's why you practice for emergencies during flight training.

damn that comment was funny!

In reply to this comment by E_Nygma:
the sound of the engine stopping sounds exactly like a censor beep.

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>> ^jimnms:
He was lucky indeed. I learned during my flight training that a public road is the WORST possible place to try to land in an emergency. For one thing, roads usually have these things called power lines that run across them, but most importantly you endanger the lives of people on the ground.


"WORST"? So you would rather land...
1) on a preschool picnic
2) on a munitions factory
3) on a preschool picnic on a munitions factory

I think this guy did a good job. No injuries, no damage to the aircraft. He had a view of the road when he made his decision so he could see about traffic and power lines.

>> ^rogueWRX:
Even BETTER embed (widescreen, HQ available, LONGER)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oT58Di51wDk


Lol, thanks, swapped again!

Swapped the embed, thanks! This is much better now

In reply to this comment by cybrbeast:
Better quality embed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8dgVCJlec

>> ^cybrbeast:
Better quality embed
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IS8dgVCJlec


Swapped the embed, thanks!

>> ^jimnms:
...they couldn't get him out of the plane, and he burned alive.


Um... thanks for sharing.

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>> ^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?