On a landout, my first call is to 911 and tell them that the call is
not an emergency, then I tell them I've landed out and that I do not
need assistance from "first responders."

One time, it was interesting in that the 911 dispatcher asked me where
I was. Well, I was in North Carolina, but I wasn't sure exactly which
county, knowing I was pretty close to the county line. I was going to
give the 911 person my longitude and latitude, but he said he had it
and he then told me what county I was in. Later on, the landowner -
farmer arrived, with a big pistol in a holster on his hip, and he told
me I was in a different county than what the 911 dispatcher said.
Then, he started thinking and then agreed with the county dispatcher.
Apparently, the county line crossed the big field I had landed in. I
suppose the 911 dispatcher is looking at the phone's location on a GIS
map. By the way, the farmer told me he was carrying the pistol
because he had seen a mama bear and a cub walking in his field and he
was out checking on where to set up his deer hunting stand and didn't
want to surprise the mama bear. But if he did, he wanted to be
armed. He told me the pistol wasn't because I was out there. Whew!

The idea of calling 911 and letting them know it's not an emergency is
so they don't send a large number of people and equipment out to check
on a "crash". On the other hand, if I did crash, the rescue teams
might be needed. So I don't want the "first responders" to get into
the notion that they don't have to respond to ANY glider that has
landed out. If one or two law enforcement officers show up, I don't
see that as a problem at all.

One time, I landed at a runway that had been closed and is used by the
county to train the first responders to drive. Most of the runway had
a bunch of traffic cones on it, but I managed to find a spot long
enough to safely land. I pushed the glider to the parallel taxiway
(which would have been PERFECT to land on...) and soon, I had about
three police cruisers and five or six policemen from the classroom
come out to meet me. As said in a previous post, their dispatcher
wanted the police to not only call the FAA, but to arrest me. But the
on-site policemen were really nice and said the dispatcher was a dork
and beside, the dispatcher wasn't their boss. One policeman said he
was glad I landed at a "safe" place rather in the forested areas
around the airport.

Ray Lovinggood
Carrboro, North Carolina, USA