"Doug" wrote in message
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Yeah, nice airport crowd. Make a mistake and you are "shot". And you
are advocating this type of operation?

Why not make a design that MINIMIZES conflict, not maximizes them?

Get serious. YOUR airport has a seperate runway for gliders. I wonder
why?


Doug, obviously you did not catch my "tongue in cheek". But yes, we do have
serious conversations with those that transgress and we have politely not
renewed some club members based on their flying inabilities.

Short of using two different airports separated by miles, Parallel design is
the safest that minimizes conflict.
We run parallel operations, we have left and right traffic patterns, we talk
on the radio and we train everyone that radios fail.

We have 3 power flying schools at neighboring airports that come here for
touch and go practice and first solo operations, plus 2 nearby helicopter
schools that use our airport for training, two Jump Businesses on airport
and two Commercial Glider "joy ride" operations on the field in addition to
our club operations. Plus the local Acro club has the designated Acro Box
just outside and above the west downwind, we use it too, for spin training.

Everything works just fine, What we cannot protect against is the transient
that never checks NOTAMs and never looks at an A/FD.

We have two runways because the club was here on a dirt strip and we hauled
in our own fuel. When the county came in to "upgrade", we were able to
convince them the wise and safe aspects of building a second runway. The
second runway has no lights, is 60ft wide and 3500ft long with 600ft gravel
under/over runs at each end, and the infield from the runway to the taxiway
is bladed smooth to the same elevation as the paved portions.

BT