To: Fred Mertz
The Doral Country Club is right across the street. There are four golf courses on the property, except it would be almost impossible to make a landing there at night.
To: Moonman62
Thanks.
To: Moonman62
Old pilot joke:
If you must make an emergency landing at night, look for a dark area on the ground. Dark, because that would imply that no homes are in that location.
Just before landing at night, turn on your landing lights.
If you see nothing but trees, turn your landing lights off.
182 posted on
12/06/2002 9:05:49 AM PST by
Hunble
To: Moonman62
It was a nearly moonless night, which makes it tough, but there are also street lights adjacent to the golf course, and the plane probably has lights.
Hitting wires or cartwheeling off a sand trap would be the big worries. But, as has been pointed out, burning alive is a bigger worry than most anything else.
184 posted on
12/06/2002 9:19:38 AM PST by
eno_
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