Back in my gliding days I landed in a fair few farmer's fields. I first thing I did after landing was to find the farmer and apologise for landing in his field but I would point out that it was an emergency and had his field not been there, I could well have broken my neck.
I never had a problem and all of them were very hospitable. Nor was I ever asked to pay for any damage caused although I always offered.
I did hear a great story about a rather pompous individual who landed his big piece of expensive fibre glass in a stubble field in the West Country. He took the opposite tack and was very abusive to the farmer.
The farmer pointed out where the gate to the field was (it was a long way away) and told our pompous pilot that he was going to leave the gate open so that he could remove his glider. He pointed out that he was not preventing our man from leaving in any way but then went on to say that he was going to burn off the stubble in the field in 15 minutes time (they were allowed to do that in those days)!
There was no way that our pompous pilot could shift his plastic machine on his own so a huge helping of humble pie had to be devoured very quickly.
Last edited by JW411; 5th June 2012 at 10:59.