ORIGINAL: bigmansm
There is a nice HUGE sized parking lot ontop of a mountain near my house. I have already scoped out the landscape and there is not a tall or dangerous tree for miles, plently of runway and a nice sacluded spot. I have seen two guys flying up there before. There is even a 30ft wide flat dirty road that the planes would be landed on, but it would be a hard landing.
Please remember that:
a) Doing this may be violating local rules, laws and/or regulations.
b) You really need permission from the property owner, or local government to do this.
c) If you do not do "b", you can be giving us collectively a "black eye". All it takes is one person to object, to wreak havok on our hobby.
d) There are liability, safety, FAA and other issues that you may be stepping on unless you go back to "B".
e) Liability, don't overlook this!
f) Doing things on your own, helps push our hobby to be regulated and stamped upon.
g) Those "two guys" should be appraised of all of this.
Look for a club and join it if possible.
As part of the membership you'll be required to get your AMA membership as well giving you insurance coverage.
Most clubs have already scoped out safe and permitted flying sites, and act to try to give the hobby a good name.
Government agencies tend to LIKE the "safety" bent of the flying clubs. The clubs in turn act in good faith and try to be good cititizens.
Clubs also will help you in many ways too numerous to mention, including free trainers, raffled airplanes, events, training, and help.