Cessna lands (and later takes off) on highway in Montana

I don't think this pilot followed his emergency checklist fully.
One of the items on a Cessna 182's checklist is to verify that the Fuel Switch is on the "both tanks" setting.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017925/Pilot-makes-emergency-landing-Montana-highway--good-thing-retired-air-traffic-controller.html

Pilot makes an emergency landing on Montana highway - good thing he was a retired air traffic controller

A retired air traffic controller piloting a small plane to western Montana for a vacation wasn't exactly cleared for a landing when his plane's engine died. Fortunately, the highway was empty.

Pilot James Hollis of Erie, Colorado, was forced to make an emergency landing after it appeared his Cessna 182 had run out of fuel.
Avoiding disaster, he landed on an empty stretch of U.S. Highway 93 just north of Darby on Thursday morning.

Montana Highway Patrol trooper Scott Bennett said: 'He actually got pretty lucky because there's a fair amount of traffic on that road.'
'Without the engine running he had no control over where he was going to land.'

Bennett said the plane was mistakenly drawing fuel from only one of its two tanks.
Once on the ground, Hollis discovered the problem and switched tanks.
'He was pretty embarrassed,' Bennett said.

The two-lane highway is flat in the area where the plane came down, but there are trees on both sides.
Hollis also was lucky to avoid power lines in the area, the trooper said.

'It had the potential to be really bad,' Bennett said.
Troopers closed the road so the plane could take off again. No one was injured.

 

It's a good looking paint job on that plane too!

And he's got "182" in his tail number. (trying not to be jealous).
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