Living on the airport -- comments?

Sounds great to me,,, in spite of a bit of a reservation about being 60
feet
from the departure end of the runway

The runway parallels the house -- it is not off the departure or arrival
ends.

But the deck is only 100 feet away.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

It sounds like a dream come true for anyone who feels the way you do (and I do)
about airplanes and flying.

I'd jump at it if my life and business were in Iowa.


www.Rosspilot.com

Ah heck then...... DO IT!!!!

The rest of us will be busy turning green, meanwhile!!!



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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Sounds great to me,,, in spite of a bit of a reservation about being 60
feet
from the departure end of the runway

The runway parallels the house -- it is not off the departure or arrival
ends.

But the deck is only 100 feet away.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Pay attention chaps, read before you post!!!

It's clearly not an airpark read "property line".
and he tells us the distance read "60 feet".

Good luck Jay, sounds like an opportunity not to be missed.
I have friends that live under the flight path of 03 at FAJS , and they do
sleep at night!
Regards.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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We find ourselves with the rare opportunity to purchase a home with a
property line just 60 feet from the centerline of a 2400 foot runway.

It's a beautiful home, with almost 2 acres of land. It's got everything
we
could want in a home, except for a hangar. (The hangar that comes with it
fits an ultralight...) We'd have to add a full-sized hangar.

As we were standing on the deck, facing the runway, watching the planes
come
and go, we started to wonder if the plane noise would eventually start to
grate on our nerves. If two people were ever made to live with their
plane, it's Mary and me -- but I thought it might be good to hear from
some
of you who have actually DONE it. Does the "music" of the engines turn
to
aggravation over time?

Can anyone fill in the gaps? What are the ups and downs of actually
living
at an airport?
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

"Nigel T Peart" wrote in message
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Pay attention chaps, read before you post!!!

Pay attention yourself.

It's clearly not an airpark read "property line".
and he tells us the distance read "60 feet".

"Clearly not an airpark"? Why not? Just because the property itself
doesn't include the runway? Have you ever even seen an airpark? It's quite
common for a residential airpark to have properties that don't include the
runway.

Even if it's not an airpark (and sure looks to me like it is), what of it?
The real question is whether Jay will get annoyed at the airplane noise, and
frankly if the house is near the runway, this is a valid question whether or
not the facility qualifies as an airpark (though, it does).

Pete

Can anyone fill in the gaps? What are the ups and downs of actually
living
at an airport?


Make sure there aren't issues with the people leaving near the airport. The
owners of St. Croix Riviera airstrip on the MN/WI border had to agree to
discontinue their annual fly-in, and to operate no twins, and to not operate
any aircraft within 1000 feet of one particular rabid neighbors home
(although the airport had been there since the mid 50's).

Googling will yield more information on this strip if anyone is interested.

There's an article in the March/April issue of Aviator's Guide about
living in an airpark.
http://www.aviatorsguide.com/feature...304_flyins.htm
It's not directly applicable, since your property isn't in a residential
airpark, but some things are probably applicable.

--- Jay



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In article yZccc.190286$Cb.1727600@attbi_s51,
"Jay Honeck" wrote:

We find ourselves with the rare opportunity to purchase a home with a
property line just 60 feet from the centerline of a 2400 foot runway.

It's a beautiful home, with almost 2 acres of land. It's got everything we
could want in a home, except for a hangar. (The hangar that comes with it
fits an ultralight...) We'd have to add a full-sized hangar.

As we were standing on the deck, facing the runway, watching the planes come
and go, we started to wonder if the plane noise would eventually start to
grate on our nerves. If two people were ever made to live with their
plane, it's Mary and me -- but I thought it might be good to hear from some
of you who have actually DONE it. Does the "music" of the engines turn to
aggravation over time?

Can anyone fill in the gaps? What are the ups and downs of actually living
at an airport?


I live on what is probably the largest airpark in the world (Spruce
Creek) and I LOVE it! My house is probablt 1/2 mile from the runway, so
we don't get a lot of noise from aircraft.

The biggest problem is some young neighbors who race motorcycles
(sometimes on the taxiways).

The camaraderie here is just fabulous. EAA meets in one member's hangar,
where he keeps his Great Lakes, Model 12 Pitts, SX-300 and Tailwind.

Every Saturday morning a bunch of us (20-30 planes) fly off to breakfast
in several formations.

It's a chance I'd take. I have an uncle who once lived in a house with
an active railroad track 30 feet from the bedroom window and did quite
well for a number of years. The human body has an amazing ability to
put up with what one chooses to.
--
Gene Seibel
Hangar 131 - http://pad39a.com/gene/plane.html
Because I fly, I envy no one.




"Jay Honeck" wrote in message news:yZccc.190286$Cb.1727600@attbi_s51...
We find ourselves with the rare opportunity to purchase a home with a
property line just 60 feet from the centerline of a 2400 foot runway.

It's a beautiful home, with almost 2 acres of land. It's got everything we
could want in a home, except for a hangar. (The hangar that comes with it
fits an ultralight...) We'd have to add a full-sized hangar.

As we were standing on the deck, facing the runway, watching the planes come
and go, we started to wonder if the plane noise would eventually start to
grate on our nerves. If two people were ever made to live with their
plane, it's Mary and me -- but I thought it might be good to hear from some
of you who have actually DONE it. Does the "music" of the engines turn to
aggravation over time?

Can anyone fill in the gaps? What are the ups and downs of actually living
at an airport?

"Gene Seibel" wrote in message
om...
[...] The human body has an amazing ability to
put up with what one chooses to.

I think this is an important point, and I wish I'd thought to mention it
myself. There's a HUGE difference between noise you asked for and noise you
didn't. The exact same exposure can be an enormous irritant when you have
no control over it, and when you never expected it, and yet can be a
pleasurable reminder of your own favorite pasttime when you have consciously
decided to expose yourself to it.

Noise can be in and of itself detrimental, but except at the highest noise
levels, your own subjective perception has the most effect on how the noise
affects you.

I'm guessing someone with a passion for the railroad would love to live 30
feet from a set of active tracks, even though that kind of noise would drive
most people up the wall.

Pete