Private air strip..... yes or no???

"Big John" wrote in message

If you follow the don't get mad, get even train of activist:

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8. Take up kite flying )


Good ideas so far, but I wouldn't want to try that one. Towing banners I've had
that run in before while towing banners. Unless it's a freakin huge kite with
some heavy duty string, all that's likely to happen is you'll loose your kite.
I did get a few little marks in the fabric where they hit, but that was about
it.

FWIW, the company I flew for had their own private strip, 1500' long and rough
grass. It took them a few years of battleing to get it built, but they did win
out in the final appeals. Even so, we still did our darndest to be good
neigbors, and flew rather unorthadox patterns to keep from disturbing the
neigbors. Did this increase the risk to us in the plane? Slightly, yes, but it
wasn't overly so, and looked at as a necessary tradeoff for the convienience of
the private strip.

I'll second the suggestion to contact your neighbor and talk to him about it
(did you try his doorbell?)