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**WJRFlyBoy** · March 13th 08, 08:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.piloting,rec.aviation.homebuilt

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008 16:20:52 -0700 (PDT), wrote:

When my wife and I were looking for a place to live, I bought the books
on airparks and easily separated out the places where we DIDN'T want to
live:

1.Those out in the boondocks where you have to drive an hour to get a
loaf of bread or a can of paint.

2. Those too small to defend themselves when the neighboring Philistines
start campaigning against the airpark.
3. Anything on wells/septic tanks.
4. Any where the residents don't OWN the runway.

Reasoning here?

5. No runway lights or who prohibit night operations (Lakeway comes to
mind).
6. Those with poor approaches.
7. Those with too many other restrictions (Ocean Reef comes to mind).
8. Too far from the beach. (Arizona is mostly beach, but the water is a
bit far away.)

What do you think about Captiva?
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If you are talking about Upper Captiva...

Right.

then I can give a first hand
report. Years ago I landed my Warrior there on a few occasions. It is
a demanding runway but nothing real dangerous. Ya land short ,you
sheer off the gear on the sea wall, if you run long on the takeoff
roll you get wet. Any competent pilot should be able to keep it
between the houses with ease and get it stopped in time. The thing
that will kill ya is eating too much "death by chocolate" at the
little eatin place there. God that was good eatin, !!!!!!!!! And of
course any place that travel is restriced to golf carts only can't be
too bad.... I am betting the last few hurricanes ruined alot of the
rustic settings it used to have.

Ben.

Hit n miss as all hurricanes are but they survived OK considering.

Thx for the review. I am picking on Up Captiva because I am familiar with
it, point of reference not a point of particular contention.

Btw, the bigger problem is the unbelievably bas red algae that's clogging
up the passes and filling the beaches. Stench beyond description.
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I hesitate to add to this discussion because I'm not an instructor,
just a rather slow student who's not qualified to give advice that
might kill someone.