On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:56:00 -0500, Gig 601XL Builder wrote:

On Sun, 9 Mar 2008 22:31:16 -0700 (PDT), wrote:
If that bothers you don't think of landing at some of our back country
strips out here in the west. You would have a heart attack at most of
them trying to thread the needle of trees, cliffs, creeks, stumps,
critters, etc.......
Ben
www.haaspowerair.com
N801BH
It's a little different when you miss a landing a kill a few pines v.s. the
neighbor's kids.
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Remove numbers for gmail and for God's sake it ain't "gee" either!
The trick is to not "miss a landing"... Can you say,, Go
Around ??????????

No offense but this is like arguing with a 16 yo (not you personally) "Dad,
there is a stop sign, people STOP."

Most houses are closer to the street than any runway is to any house. On
those streets are cars driving just as fast as the average airplane
lands and they way many times more which means there is much more energy
there in the case of an accident.

I can't argue that you are wrong but, in real terms, this is much too
simple of a comparison.

Look at it this way. You have several hundred 1,000s of $$$ to mortgage
or invest in a home. If that home gets struck by a car, eh, people will
forget in a few months, a year or so. If you live on an airstrip and a
plane rolls into you, that is going to stick in the public's mind for a
long, long time.

The risk of either happening is low, the results if it does happen can
be astronomically different financially.
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Remove numbers for gmail and for God's sake it ain't "gee" either!
I hesitate to add to this discussion because I'm not an instructor,
just a rather slow student who's not qualified to give advice that
might kill someone.