On Dec 22, 9:17*am, John Cochrane
wrote:
my experience in 25 or 30 landouts with maybe 5 of them involving
local law enforcement is that they have not called the FAA before they
talk to me. *Even the one who was responding to the 911 call of a
plane crashing south of town came out to investigate the plane crash
first. *Thankfully I got him to call off the volunteer firefighter and
ambulance squad before they showed up. YMMV.

It may be a good idea to call 911 immediately after landing out and
tell them that there is NO accident, no matter what their other phone
calls say.

John Cochrane

That will be a sure recipe for having the cops show up. As paranoid as
the law enforcement guys are, that will raise their suspicion and at
least two cruisers will show up. Its like calling in and telling the
operator that no matter what the other callers may say, there is no
bank robbery in progress.
I had the local cops show up one time but after explaining to them
that this is not an emergency but the 'plan B' in the operation of a
glider, they just took some general info and left. They are also your
best bet in finding out who the owner of the field is, if nobody else
can tell you.
But at any rate, I have never heard of a set NTSB or FAA procedure
reporting off-field landings with gliders.

A nearby glider club in Germany had a student pilot land in an old
cemetary knocking over several grave markers and damaging the glider
in the process. Some old lady from across the street called in a plane
crash and mentioned how sorry she was 'for all those dead people'.
Just about every vehicle the city had showed up to rescue the rest.

U. Neumann