Has anyone ever landed a Group A (or whatever they are called now) aeroplane in a field due to bad weather? Or heard of anyone who has? Well? In many years, Ive never heard of anyone doing it.
Dunnit two times. First was my first longer mountain flight, clouds came down and down until I found myself in a valley with all hill tops in clouds, so I circled and landed at a small wet cow meadow of a farm (the only place to let down). The farmer took me by tractor to my destination airfield, was only about 3 miles behind the hills and next day I took off again in blue sky and after a fabulous breakfast at the farmers house. He became a very good friend of mine. Second time I was x-country with blue skies prognosis when a cold front mangled weather laundry and carb icing over a lake in 1.000ft forced me to land at nearest possible gras. I spent the night in the tent I had and took off next morning without seeing anybody.