Hey, it could happen to us, we could be following a "bad" GPS signal and mistakenly land on a mountain or somewhere we maybe shouldn't be, and it wouldn't be our fault! Keys in a pickup.....we are good to go to use it, obviously.

https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/ ... b68a4.html

Yes, with electronic devices anything can happen.

A thunderstorm line prevented continuing on a Phillips line to Kansas City and I turned south towards home late in the day. It got dark and I tuned up Aurora Missouri in the GPS. Near Stockton it tried to turn me W and then NW. I used memory of the area to get home and turned the GPS in for repair. An unusual antenna error led me astray without failing the unit.

courierguy wrote:...Keys in a pickup.....we are good to go to use it, obviously.

Couple years ago we flew into Kooskia, which I knew to have a courtesy car. Nobody was around, but there's a clean and tidy Datsun diesel pickup with keys in the ignition. Great courtesy car! We tied down and got in the Datsun and drove into town. Everywhere we went people kept doing a double-take. We'd wave and they'd wave back, sort of puzzled looking. We had breakfast, did some shopping and cruised around a bit. A few hours later we filled the tank and went back to the airport, where we saw a sedan parked next to the bathroom with a decal on the door reading "airport courtesy car".

Never did figure out who's truck we'd been driving around all morning.

I did something somewhat similar in Montana once, at a small town strip. Turns out it WAS the courtesy car, but what threw me when I got in was the wallet on the front seat, and then when I opened the trunk a suitcase, open, with clothes in it. The next day I called back and talked to a lady who started laughing as she explained a temp spray pilot working there was also using the car, so no harm no foul. The extra cash I found in the wallet came in handy..... Just kidding. I did open it and saw the guy's drivers license picture, and it looked like he just stepped out of an open cockpit, wind blown and sunburned, he LOOKED like a pilot, and I had already figured it was something like it turned out to be.