On Mar 5, 7:14 pm, wrote:
On Mar 5, 7:02 pm, Dan wrote:



On Mar 5, 6:55 pm, wrote:
On Mar 5, 6:44 pm, Dan wrote:

On Mar 5, 6:37 pm, wrote:
Just out of curiosity, did he violate any aviation regulations (except
for the recklessness catch-all, if the landing was unsafe)? Obviously
the altitude and obstacle-clearance regulations in 91.119 don't apply,
since he was landing.

So if he were quick witted enough, he would have said, "Gee, that
engine was running rough so I had to put it down..."

Well sure, an emergency would have made the landing legal. But what I
was wondering is which FAR, if any, was violated by the landing given
the actual, non-emergency circumstances.

You know the FAA is gonna slap him with 91.13:

Yup, I alluded to that one just above. Without knowing more detail,
though, I'm not sure if it was unsafe for him to land on an empty,
snow-covered fairway. If he'd phoned in advance and been given
permission by the owner, there might be no problem at all. He didn't,
but that's a tresspassing issue, not a FAR issue (unless I'm missing
something).

Right.

Otherwise every bush plane should be scrapped.