Most of the country is covered in perfectly reasonable airstrips for spamcans in the form of pastureland. No point overflying perfectly usable landing areas in your mission to meet destiny in the form of a rock-filled cloud.
The less-disciplined will always find a way to fly into mishap, but that is not an argument not to teach useful procedures. In WW1 they thought parachutes, as we know, would encourage pilots to leave perfectly good aircraft.
Last edited by QDMQDMQDM; 19th Mar 2007 at 13:29.