"Jose" wrote in message news:dF3yd.2108

The DE's point was, don't use private airfields as waypoints.

That's not what I'd take away from it. I'd take away "don't use
waypoints you can't identify". You in fact did not correctly identify
the waypoint. I bet you'd've passed had you pointed to the grassy
area rather than the paved strip.

Nope, 'cause the grass strip wasn't a strip; it was a square field that
hadn't been mowed in who knows how long (from 3,000 ft.) Had it not been
for the ashpalt strip, I'd not have found it AT ALL. (which was his point,
although in retrospect it may not have been cause of failure, as people are
pointing out.)

What he said, literally, is that you don't know what somebody's going to
call a "private airstrip" and unless you've actually been there and seen it
recently, you don't know whether it's a dirt road, somebody's back acreage
or an ultralight strip.

=c