"Travis Marlatte" wrote in message
nk.net...
I was talking with a police officer the other day. We were talking about
planes and police work and blah blah blah. Then he says, "I saw some guy
buzzing the neighborhood the other day. I got the tail number and I would
have reported him but I didn't know who to call."

The local FSDO. Since it's not an emergency, I'm not sure why you'd want a
special emergency contact number.

My other question is related to my own problems. Let's say that I have
landing gear trouble at night, out in the middle of nowhere.

I assume you are concerned no fire trucks will be at your destination
airport? I would call the FSS. I don't know that they have all the
appropriate phone numbers, but they are the people in the best position to
help you. However, most kinds of landing gear trouble should require little
more than some assistance in getting your airplane off the runway after you
land (so no one else lands on it).

Change your question to "if I have an engine fire, and have to land
immediately, who do I call", and then it's probably more important, assuming
you've got a spare moment (you may well not). I would tune to 121.5, call a
mayday, and activate my ELT. Then I'd get back to the business of trying to
get an airplane that's on fire down on the ground safely in the dark.

Pete