Shirl wrote:
WingFlaps wrote:
I've also heard a lot of BS in this thread about not having good
palces to put the plane. There is nearly always somewhere flat to put
the plane within 90 degrees of the runway centerline -even a road.
Malls have big parking lots!

I don't know about where you live, but malls here have lots of light
poles, concrete islands, park-and-rest benches and ... and ... vehicles
everywhere. And having gone through it once, I'm no longer fooled by
what *looks* "flat" at 500, or even 50 feet.

This guy ended up in somebody's yard and missed all the suburban traffic
last year. I drove through the neighborhood (about a mile from my
house) to see if it's where I'd have landed. Hmm.

http://www.nwcn.com/statenews/oregon....3a6a3952.html

" FAIRVIEW, Ore. -- A pilot flying a small plane he had purchased just
minutes earlier crash-landed in a dense suburban neighborhood near the
Troutdale Airport Wednesday after the plane's engine quit. "