Light-Sport Aircraft Yahoo group Forced / Off Field Landing

I live in the St. Louis metro area, and considering the short landing distance ability of most Light Sport Aircraft, even if you were flying over a fairly congested part of this particular metro area, under most circumstances, you could probably do a forced / off field landing safely and relatively easily (especially if you had been flying at a relatively high altitude prior to experiencing the problem with your aircraft, thus giving you time to pick out a suitable landing spot).

However, with an employer that I had in the past, I had numerous business trips to Chicago, Los Angeles, New York City, etc. I was impressed with how geographically huge and very densely built the largest cities of the United States are.

What should your plan be to best handle a potential forced / off field landing if you are flying over one of these mega city metro areas? . . . Cities that to me do not seem to have any suitable potential locations for a forced / off field landing for many, many, many miles in all directions.

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