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My understanding is it is legal for planes in Alaska to just land on a road. They have relatively few roads and many places are only accessible via plane, boat
by DoreenMichele 5y ago
My understanding is it is legal for planes in Alaska to just land on a road. They have relatively few roads and many places are only accessible via plane, boat or some other alternative to cars (like dog sled) for at least part of the year. They have about six times as many pilots per capita as the rest of the US. Some of their little towns have amazingly minimal airport amenities and crudely constructed landing strips.
I sometimes post articles related to that but there seem to be relatively few good articles on that subject per se. Instead I end up posting articles sort of related, like where a small Alaskan community called everyone to show up with their vehicles to provide impromptu landing lights for a medical evacuation after dark when the lights were not working.
- kevin_thibedeau 5y agoVideo demonstration of merging into traffic after a gas station pit stop: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQIcK881es https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MgQIcK881es
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- stenius 5y agoThat's a very specific "class" of aircraft. STOL. Short take off and landing. It's popular in the back country though.
- test_epsilon 5y agoAren't all aircraft a specific class of aircraft?
- pacifika 5y agoApart from UFOs
- s5300 5y agoAnd in the case you have an aircraft not in that specific class and want to do it anyways... Just strap some rockets to it. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/JATO
- stevehawk 5y agothere's kind of no FAA rule specifically outlawing planes landing anywhere. There are restaurants in the US in rural parts of the mainland where planes land on a road and taxi right up to the parking lot like they're a car. the rules are mostly around the pilot being responsible for respecting local laws, property owners (no trespassing) and the pilot being responsible for the safety of those in the plane and the road.