Something I neglected to think of when I was soloing around as a kid was that just because you could set a plane down in a given open area doesn't necessarily mean it's legal to. So what are the hard and fast rules of where one can take off from & land?

I'm sure you need permission on private property...but what about State parks? State forests? National forests? State or National recreation areas? BLM? Etc.

Thanks.

Seems like the typical answer is 'it depends' but lots of very experienced users have contributed their knowledge and personal findings on the subject on BCP many times. Here's a few:

https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/land ... e-us-19535
https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/land ... -land-3944
https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/land ... oads-14665
https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/land ... -land-9337
https://backcountrypilot.org/forum/wher ... egal-19929

These were all found by googling landing on public land site:backcountrypilot.org

Thanks for posting the info as well as an example of how to specifically search this board. Thanks for being gentle! My bad for not searching before posting. Apology.

TresMon wrote:Thanks for posting the info as well as an example of how to specifically search this board. Thanks for being gentle! My bad for not searching before posting. Apology.

No worries, the google "trick" is much easier than searching using the forum search bar when looking for full topics, learned it from the man himself, Zzz.