Does the FAA have written policy WRT landouts?

For the last 4-5 years, the Cordele, Ga. contest management has
advised us to call 911 preemptively, to avoid the first-responder
nonsense.

Frank Paynter (TA)


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

In 1998 before a contest at TSA, Marvin Willis spoke to and got a
written follow up letter from the FSDO in Dallas stating that the FAA
does not consider an off-airport landing by a sailplane a reportable
incident if there is no damage to aircraft, property of another, or
injury to any person.

I have a PDF of this that I would be happy to share. Tried several
times to attach it, but to no success.

Email me off the thread and I will send you back the PDF. Have been
carrying the letter several years, not used it yet.

Kevin
192

Here is a link to Kevin's pdf file.
http://www.soaridaho.com/Misc/FAALandOut.pdf

It is probably something that could be updated by a person that has a good
relationship with their FSDO.

Wayne
http://www.soaridaho.com/


"kevin anderson" wrote in message
...

In 1998 before a contest at TSA, Marvin Willis spoke to and got a
written follow up letter from the FSDO in Dallas stating that the FAA
does not consider an off-airport landing by a sailplane a reportable
incident if there is no damage to aircraft, property of another, or
injury to any person.

I have a PDF of this that I would be happy to share. Tried several
times to attach it, but to no success.

Email me off the thread and I will send you back the PDF. Have been
carrying the letter several years, not used it yet.

Kevin
192

On Dec 27 2011, 7:55*am, "Wayne Paul" wrote:
Here is a link to Kevin's pdf file.http://www.soaridaho.com/Misc/FAALandOut.pdf

It is probably something that could be updated by a person that has a good
relationship with their FSDO.

Waynehttp://www.soaridaho.com/

"kevin anderson" *wrote in message

...

In 1998 before a contest at TSA, Marvin Willis spoke to and got a
written follow up letter from the FSDO in Dallas stating that the FAA
does not consider an off-airport landing by a sailplane a reportable
incident if there is no damage to aircraft, property of another, or
injury to any person.

I have a PDF of this that I would be happy to share. *Tried several
times to attach it, but to no success.

Email me off the thread and I will send you back the PDF. *Have been
carrying the letter several years, not used it yet.

Kevin
192

Kevin, Wayne,

Thanks. This document is just the sort of thing our club is looking
for. Perhaps we'll be able to get it reissued by the Oakland FSDO.

Happy New Year,
Larry