" just an average Farlang..." wrote:

Yesterday I took a flying lesson with a chief piot and he told me a
small plane can lift off after about a thousand feet of runway and
then the maximum climb would be about 500 feet per minute.

A Maule 235 will be off the ground in 250'. It will be about 1,000' up when it
passes over your house. An Aviat Husky will be higher than that. Performance
varies a lot from aircraft to aircraft.

He thought for a plane to stay the necessaary elevation over my property the
pilot is required a total of no less than 4000 feet.

Well, there isn't any regulation specifying a "necessary elevation" when landing
or taking off, so he's wrong there. The FAA *does* specify some requirements for
public use fields, but not for private ones. That instructor may have been
thinking of those.

George Patterson
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you look forward to the trip.