Now that jet ownership is so inexpensive...

B A R R Y wrote:
On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 16:50:54 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
wrote:


Where in hell does this guy live? GA flying is almost non-existent
over 95% of America.

I live in the 5%, here in Central CT.

At any given time on a nice day, I can see at least (3) single engine
aircraft in flight, and often one bizjet.

I live 15 miles from the nearest airport, but there are (5) paved and
one grass strip inside of 25 miles, and a total of (8) within 35.

My house is on the north end of a practice area used by many schools.
I can watch stalls and steep turns from my deck.

I must live in that same 5% too - here in rural Oregon. According to Google
Earth, within 15 miles of where I live there a

3 private grass airstrips (OR57, 82OR, and 36OR),
2 public airports (77S and 61S), and ...
6 alleged bigfoot "sightings" (I accidently had "Geographic Web" - "Google
Earth Community" checked and it displayed sighting points. Thought it would
be amusing to list the count.)

And within 35 miles:

14 private grass airstrips(!) (too many too list),
4 public airports (77S, 61S, KEUG, and 5S0), and ...
too many alleged bigfoot sightings to list.

When we get a day of nice weather after a long spell of lousy weather (like
today) we almost always get someone doing aerobatics in our area (from out
of 77S).