Mooney pilot has close call landing on street in California

[Baikonour]

vancouv: Is there not a single engine restriction over LA like there is over London? Doesn't look like you could glide clear.

In my limited experience, the 'Glide clear' rule is one of those UK specificities, like the 'Basic(cally useless) service' which other countries do not have.

Whenever I have flown abroad and mentioned it, the people I talk to normally say something like "Gee, that's a nice idea, but how does it work in practice?". As shown by this thread, it would make SEP flight in many places of the world impractical at best or impossible at worst.
So a bit like the UK, really...

B.

[Flying Lawyer]

I suspect that's correct.

I spent a week flying a single engine news helicopter (Bell Jetranger) over LA about 20 years ago. They still do as far as I'm aware. (There are more open spaces in which to land in an emergency than some might assume.)
Single engine helicopters over London are restricted to flying along the Thames.

[piperboy84]

Flying lawyer (There are more open spaces in which to land in an emergency than some might assume.)

Absolutely, I fly my single almost every day around the LA basin from the beaches around downtown LA, Long beach and out over the easter suburbs mostly between 1000 and 2000 AGL. there are a ton of places for an emergency landing from golf courses, the concrete LA river and other storm run offs, big wide lightly trafficked residential streets and sports grounds. S

You may bend your plane but the odds are your going to walk away. Some of those warehouses alongside the train tracks are so long that landing on the roof would be relatively easy, i've landed in shorter "airstrips" in Scotland

[Above The Clouds]

I would say a perfect demo of parallel parking