Landing on UK Roads
I was a little surprised to read in an earlier thread that emergency landings on roads in the UK are deemed illegal.
I learnt to fly in Florida and on my return to the UK flew from Stapleford (NE London). I now live in Sydney, Australia.
In the states, instructors encouraged us to consider roads (be they highways or rough tracks) as suitable options for forced landings the minute the fan has stopped.
Likewise, down here in Australia, a QFI picked me up on my passenger briefing, and prompted me to explain that in the unlikely case of the spinner stopping, we would be joining the traffic pattern on the fast lane of the free-way.
When I flew in the UK, I often overflew the QE2 Bridge on the Thames heading South for TonBridge. As the area is fairly suburban, I would often muse that the M25 looked like a fair option if the unlikely were to arise. Is this thought criminal?