I certainly know of one fine Naval aviator who left it very late to use the alternate let-down facility in a Hunter. When I remonstrated with him in hospital, he stated that when the donk ran down halfway around finals, he rolled wings level and found he was pointing at the married patch and infants school - so he turned further left and was about to bang out when he realised that the ****ester by-pass was jammed with summer traffic. So he squeaked it over the road and jumped, hitting the ground with a partially inflated 'chute, whilst the jet bounced across the bows of a bus full of pongoes on the Som***** road and buried itself in a midden.
Some guys actually do it!!
Mog