Landing on a road?

[BD King]

Years ago, I knew a guy who had a getaway place in Kentucky and would land the "ol" Bonanza on the township road. Things went swimmingly until the township put up a new road sign.

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[low-n-slow]

Check local governments regarding the use of roadways being used for landing strips. We spray in 3 different counties here and two of them will allow us to use the county roads with prior permission while the other county will not allow the use of the roads. I've worked in some places out west where the use of roads as landing strips were included in the (counties) laws and by-laws and no prior permission is mandated, with varying rules and stipulations of course.

As previously mentioned, make sure that your aircraft will be covered by your insurance coverage. Sometimes it's no more than a phone call to the company for the additional coverage.

 

[igneousy2]

If its that important to you, and you think its worth it, why don't you consult your few neighbors, and try to get this road recognized as an "Approved Landing Area", ie, a private airport.

I've seen a few private airport/road combinations out west. I'd guess its possible.

You may be able to convince the neighbors with a few 100 dollar hamburger trips from their new local airport every now and then!

Actually, if you're in Michigan, and as long as you don't land on a state road (highway) and you're not within 5 miles of a public airport, you don't need permission.

You would need to check the regulations of the government entity that owns the road you are trying to land on...i.e the city/town or the county. If the road is a private road, get permission of the owner and go for it.


...I'm not speaking from personal knowledge...just the laws as posted here by another poster.

 

[TDTURBO]

Igniously2,


Where did you find this info? I am not within 5 miles but 15 miles from an airport (public) and the road is a county road in VanBuren County. CR390 or something like that. It would be ideal and it is rarely used and I can see traffic coming well in advance and the neighbors are all my relatives on the lake so getting permission isn't an issue. my uncle is a Magjistrate (judge) in the county, but he isn't sure either, I asked him this weekend. I guess I will call him so he can research it more. But where did you get this info?


It is actually 36th street not CR390 if that makes a difference.

 

[check6]

I think it's legal in Nevada, of course, what isn't?

 

[DrewBlows]

deleted, redundant

 

[agpilot34]

I flew cropdusters for several years, and there was one area we did applications in every year where we used a county section line road as our airstrip. We'd give the county commissioners a call, let them know when we'd be there, and they would bring out a couple of barricades to set up at each end. We'd land, taxi off into an open field that didnt have a fence, and that was where we had our nurse trucks set up to fuel and load the aircraft. We usually spent about three weeks at that place, and never had a problem of any kind.

 

[igneousy2]

Igniously2,


Where did you find this info? I am not within 5 miles but 15 miles from an airport (public) and the road is a county road in VanBuren County. CR390 or something like that. It would be ideal and it is rarely used and I can see traffic coming well in advance and the neighbors are all my relatives on the lake so getting permission isn't an issue. my uncle is a Magjistrate (judge) in the county, but he isn't sure either, I asked him this weekend. I guess I will call him so he can research it more. But where did you get this info?


It is actually 36th street not CR390 if that makes a difference.

Just based on TDTURBO's post on 6/21/2005