Bad publicity

I have seen the emergency services twice at a field
that I have landed in. Both times we called them.

Maybe it says something about your landings more than
an uneducated public! ;-)

At 08:24 22 January 2004, Mike Lindsay wrote:
In article , Alistair Wright
writes

'Martin Gregorie' wrote in message
. ..
On Tue, 20 Jan 2004 19:01:07 -0000, 'David Starer'
wrote:

Well Martin, you and I both know that whenever you
land out in the UK there
will shortly be police car and a crowd of gawpers asking
where the 'crash'
is! In more than twenty C/C flights I always encountered
this response.
Even when I showed people that my engine hadn't fallen
off, they still often
could not comprehend the idea of flying without one.
So much for our
'air-minded public I used to think. On two occasions
some local worthy
actually summoned the Fire Brigade who were NOT amused
to find no crash and
certainly no fire.

I had this happen when I landed near a busy road near
Bury St Edmunds.
I had a policeman on a motor-bite, two fire engines
and a doctor.
I tried to get the policeman to help me derig, I've
never seen one
disappear so quickly. But it was a Skylark 4, notoriously
heavy.

The next day I landed out again, my second phone call
was a 999 to tell
the police there wasn't an emergency. They were a bit
non-plussed, but
quite glad to know.

--
Mike Lindsay