RWM wrote:the crazy part is when he thought "This looks like a great spot to build an airport!!"

RWM wrote:
the crazy part is when he thought "This looks like a great spot to build an airport!!"

Wrong. It probably looked like a pretty good spot when the airport was built.

According to the FAA the airport has been there since 1964 and for all we know may have been there for years before the right paperwork was submitted to the FAA and approved in 1964. The house he took off towards and landed over was built in 2002. I checked the dates a few of the other houses in the area were built too and none that I checked, except the airport owners, were built before the airport existed.

jomac wrote:ok, looks about like lower loon length with a house at the end....NFW...not on purpose!

If a Skywagon goes in there, be sure to get a video!

dirtstrip wrote:FAA has it listed as C85.
http://registry.faa.gov/aircraftinquiry ... rtxt=1770K

GumpAir wrote:For now, but as new NIMBY people move in...

Think Jeremiah Johnson had the right idea. Just keep movin' on.

Gump

bumper wrote:

GumpAir wrote:For now, but as new NIMBY people move in...

Think Jeremiah Johnson had the right idea. Just keep movin' on.

Gump

I need to post a picture of my old strip, about 1 1/2 mile away from my current property of 6 yrs now. Nothing like this guys strip but compared to what it was like when I started there 28 yrs earlier, it had gotten crowded. The incentive for my move was when a newbie bought the 30 acre lot below my strip, AND THE NEXT DAY, put a 10' high steel pipe post up at our adjoining property lines, right on the centerline of my runway, with a big no tresspassing sign on top of it. Keep in mind I'd be 20 or 50' high when passing over, and could always divert a bit, so not a deal breaker, but his attitude was. I thought about pulling it out of the ground and beating him senseless with it, but am proud to say I never said a word or otherwise let on I was bothered at all by it.

Within 24 hrs I'd contacted a realtor, and talked with the local farm family who owned the 40 acres I'm now on. 10 days later the property (11 acres) sold and a week later I was outa there, living in a borrowed camper, hauling water, crapping in a different hole every few days (the 12" auger/post hole digger on the Kubota came in real handy, a cheap plastic lawn chair with a hole jigsawed out of the seat completed the setup ) and generally roughing it for the next several months, but happy I was not in prison for murder I started building immediately (I got cashed out and sold right before the real estate crash)and soon was back to as normal as I get. I have a few minutes longer drive to the ski area, but 1000% better relations with my (few) farm and ranch neighbors, who don't even live on the mountain. I am still friendly with the ex neighbor, not one word was ever said, (he was an (inactive) pilot BTW, go figure) hell I ride up the chairlift with him a few times a week, if I ever say anything to him it would be to thank him as the move has worked out so well! That will mess with his head, I think he's still sorry we didn't get to butt heads, like he has done with the other neighbors.

More ground and fewer neighbors seems to work about everytime, the pic of that guys strip is like something from a pilots nightmare, no caption needed, self explanatory!


NIMBY?? I left that stage in the dust years ago.

I'm a BANANA!

(Build Absolutely Nothing Anywhere Near Anthing)