When I lived in Hawaii, I remember a news report of a guy that landed his
single engine plane on a dirt road near his girlfriends apartment complex,
as in 1,000 feet away.

The FAA got cranky with him, until they figured out that he did his
homework.
1. he got permission from the owner of the private road
2. it was at least 1000 feet from any congested area
3. he landed coming in from the ocean and took off towards the ocean and it
was a waterfront road.
4. this was about 26 years ago and the regulations were less stringent

pretty cool.


"Jim Macklin" wrote in message
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Ranchers have pastures, fields and farm roads. Many even
have private airstrips. Public roads have too many
obstacles such as power lines, telephone poles and mail
boxes, to say nothing about vehicular traffic.

If a public road is needed, the sheriff or state police will
usually close the road and even take down signs and such, at
least they did in Oklahoma when we flew Barons, Bonanzas and
even King Airs in for an oil show, used the highway and
taxied into the fair grounds.


"T Lee Buyea Fla News Service" wrote
in message
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| IFR ? -- Doesn't that mean
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| " I Follow Railroad Tracks? "
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| Actually my real question as an avionics technician and
not a pilot is
| out in the wide open spaces in the USA where people like
veterinarians
| use small planes to reach farms in a large area they
cover.
| Is it legal to land a small plane on a completely vacant
of traffic
| country road ? And legal or not do they do it anyway ?
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| Please send a copy of the answer to me also at

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| Thank You
| Thomas Buyea, Miami, Fl. USA
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