The general rule that applies most often is that there must be at least one airplane-eating tree in most flying areas. Murphy's second law says that your plane will always fly to the top of one of the largest, very tallest trees around. One tree that even our approximately 40-foot fiberglass telephone line pole will not reach! Then we see the lasso folks, some who try to shoot the limb down, the resident monkey that proceeds to climb the very tall tree, and the really smart landowner who goes back to the house to get his chainsaw. From the botany I did take, I never did understand the propensity of trees to run into airplanes.
