sms777,
On that basis, we should completely rewrite CASR Part 139 to require the flight strips either side of runways to be dense re-growth scrub, as a safety measure??
Seriously, as a totally illogical post facto justification for something that should never have happened (neither AOPA, nor anybody else had any idea that a fundamental provision of the head lease was going to be breached, and that breech ignored, and as I recall, the rippers moved in late Christmas eve, or some such thing) sms777, you win the biscuit.
Will I tell any students in the future: " See that big paddock, head for the trees beside it, it will be safer" in a practice forced landing.
A forced landing in an overgrown gully is "safer" than on a prepared flight strip?? Mate, whatever your are smoking, it must be No.1 Good Sh*t.
Tootle pip!!