Lukas wrote in message .6.84...

To venture even further into speculation territory, I always thought that
some homebuilt pilots in places like the US actually take off and land on
their own land, but I guess that's only possible with fairly remote farms?

Remote? Not necessarily.

According to the Class B chart for Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
(population about three million, located on the Mississippi River),
there are about 30 private airstrips within a 30nm radius of
Minneapolis / St. Paul International. There are also two towered
(class D airspace) reliever airports and two uncontrolled airports
within that radius. A number of the private airports are seaplane
bases - Minnesota has a LOT of lakes.

I visited last week with a fellow who flies out of a private grass
strip he shares with several other folks. It's two miles outside of
the town he lives in, which itself is a 30-minute country drive from
the outer ring-road around the Minneapolis / St. Paul metro. Some
people who live there commute to work in Minneapolis, about an hour
each way in traffic. I know folks in Los Angeles with longer
commutes.

Those airports are all within the 30-nm "mode C veil" around major US
airports, so if the airplane was certified with an electrical system
it has to have a transponder that reports altitude. Something like a
Piper Cub, FlyBaby, Volksplane, Air Camper, etc. can get away without
it.

There's even a good German restaurant in Minneapolis! :-)

Corrie