IFR ??? Country Road Question

"john smith" wrote in message
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"Al G" wrote:

My wife is from Nevada. I have used the highway into town as a runway
many times, parked next to the Bar at the edge of town. The road is
perfectly straight for about 7 or 8 miles, and it is easy to check for
vehicular traffic. There are no power lines or cross traffic for over
thirty
miles. I've talked with the local sheriff, and he has no problem as long
as
resonable safety precautions are used. The bar owner thought having an
airplane outside was an attraction.

Is it eight hours bottle to throttle and no smoking within 100 feet of
the airplane, or no drinking with 100 feet of the airplane and no
smoking eight hours before flying?

You didn't expect him to DRIVE home in that condition did you?

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"john smith" wrote in message
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In article ,
"Al G" wrote:

My wife is from Nevada. I have used the highway into town as a runway
many times, parked next to the Bar at the edge of town. The road is
perfectly straight for about 7 or 8 miles, and it is easy to check for
vehicular traffic. There are no power lines or cross traffic for over
thirty
miles. I've talked with the local sheriff, and he has no problem as long
as
resonable safety precautions are used. The bar owner thought having an
airplane outside was an attraction.

Is it eight hours bottle to throttle and no smoking within 100 feet of
the airplane, or no drinking with 100 feet of the airplane and no
smoking eight hours before flying?

You didn't expect him to DRIVE home in that condition did you?

--
Geoff


I've seen Cannonball run, you can drive a jet with no wings on the
interstate.

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DW

"T Lee Buyea Fla News Service" wrote in message
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IFR ? -- Doesn't that mean

" I Follow Railroad Tracks? "

Actually my real question as an avionics technician and not a pilot is
out in the wide open spaces in the USA where people like veterinarians
use small planes to reach farms in a large area they cover.
Is it legal to land a small plane on a completely vacant of traffic
country road ? And legal or not do they do it anyway ?


Please send a copy of the answer to me also at

Thank You
Thomas Buyea, Miami, Fl. USA


There are exceptions, but, in general, roads are a bad idea. I've never
landed on one, but I have move an aircraft a couple miles down a two lane
country road - It was surprising how many things are less than 1/2 a
wingspan apart from the middle of the road.

(The airplane (Navion) had been landed in a field and we were moving it to a
sod farm that had a "runway" down the middle)

One time it worked out (for someone else):
http://thenewsherald.com/stories/122...51221001.shtml

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Geoff
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