Originally Posted by
StraightLevel
i have a friend who did his ppl in florida and was taught to go for a road in the event of an engine failure.
apparantly over there they are built in such a way as to have a certain proportion of them straight, and the central reservation is supposed to be wide enough to take a light aircraft, specifically incase an aircraft has an engine failure.
And in Finland ... there are stretches of road that appear to have been built to take jet fighters.
Probably just as well, because otherwise you'd have a choice between the trees and the lakes. (An instructor on Vancouver Island once told me to go for the trees if I were ever faced with that choice, as people do odd things when suddenly immersed in water just above freezing point, such as swim into the tail of the aircraft and drown rather than swim out of the door.)