Airparks; Living On The Beaten Path?

On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:29:02 -0400, Margy Natalie wrote:

What percentage of landings happen off the airstrip? That % of landings
could find you in someone's living room.

I think houses off the approach and departure ends are a much worse
idea. If you have such a bad wind/landing that you are going to hit my
house 110' off the center line either you are planting a really large
aircraft on 3,000' of grass or you need some serious recurrent training.

Margy

www.TinyURL.com/39avgz

The above was the e.g., note that many homes are 60' OCl

Great way to get Gulf view in a home that is several hundred feet off the
beach though.
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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.

WJRFlyBoy wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:29:02 -0400, Margy Natalie wrote:


What percentage of landings happen off the airstrip? That % of landings
could find you in someone's living room.

I think houses off the approach and departure ends are a much worse
idea. If you have such a bad wind/landing that you are going to hit my
house 110' off the center line either you are planting a really large
aircraft on 3,000' of grass or you need some serious recurrent training.

Margy


www.TinyURL.com/39avgz

The above was the e.g., note that many homes are 60' OCl

Great way to get Gulf view in a home that is several hundred feet off the
beach though.
I saw that, it just made me jealous (until I thought about hurricane
season).

On Fri, 14 Mar 2008 20:08:07 -0400, Margy Natalie wrote:

WJRFlyBoy wrote:
On Thu, 13 Mar 2008 21:29:02 -0400, Margy Natalie wrote:

What percentage of landings happen off the airstrip? That % of landings
could find you in someone's living room.

I think houses off the approach and departure ends are a much worse
idea. If you have such a bad wind/landing that you are going to hit my
house 110' off the center line either you are planting a really large
aircraft on 3,000' of grass or you need some serious recurrent training.

Margy

www.TinyURL.com/39avgz

The above was the e.g., note that many homes are 60' OCl

Great way to get Gulf view in a home that is several hundred feet off the
beach though.
I saw that, it just made me jealous (until I thought about hurricane
season).

lol But you have the advantage of flying out to wherever. I-X5 gets
backed up, you wouldn't believe the evacuation mess from S. FL.

http://tinyurl.com/yv2zbg
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WJRFlyBoy wrote:

Great way to get Gulf view in a home that is several hundred feet off the
beach though.

I saw that, it just made me jealous (until I thought about hurricane
season).


lol But you have the advantage of flying out to wherever. I-X5 gets
backed up, you wouldn't believe the evacuation mess from S. FL.

http://tinyurl.com/yv2zbg

But you still have to clean up the mess afterwards. Charlotte has seen
a hurricane, once, so I think having the lake down the runway and the
living room facing the runway is just fine. If I need beach I can fly
to the outerbanks. :-)

Margy