25 Feb
2003
25 Feb
'03
4:48 a.m.
Ethan wrote
I live across the street for an inactive grass field, main problem for
pilots was deer
and dogs on the runway. We could never fly kites or launch Estes rockets
this close to an airport.
I once had my dinner interrupted by a pilot who crashed and walked up to
the house and asked to
use the telephone. His Globe Swift's alternator had failed. He couldn't
manually crank down the
landing gear and wanted to land on grass to save the plane. Now we have a
sixty acre park, we
still mow the runway, great for walking dogs and exercise, no cars
allowed. Occasional wood chucks,
deer, turkeys, and foxes however.
Mike
> Any help would be greatly appreciated;
Particularly since the people
that
> own the property have sold off the end of the
strip to a local farmer
who
> keeps cows there... And the other pilots are
a bit too soft to leap the
> fence and wander through a herd of cattle in the middle of the night
just
to turn
on the lamps...
I've been to a strip in NW Ohio, Fremont, that has a grass strip butting
into a narrow asphalt strip in a Tee shape... the State airport guide
warns that cows may be present on the grass runway and to perform a
flyover before attempting a landing there.