"Marty Shapiro" wrote in message
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The nearest airport to where I live has a paved runway 2,443' long. There
are several clubs at this airport. A few years ago, I was considering
joining one of these clubs and went around to them to review their
membership requirements and rules. Just about all of them had a rule that
members were only allowed to land at paved runways a minimum of 3,000'
long.

Blimey. I had to land on one that was only 2,000 feet long on my qualifying
cross-country (a =150nm solo XC exercise that students undertake at around
35 hours into the course, involving landing at a total of three airfields
including your own). It was dead easy, too.

At my home airfield, the runway is about 6,000 feet long, but it's rare that
you use more than the first 1500 or so in our club PA-28 unless you do it
without flaps or you're hurtling in too fast. Though a 737 I was on as a
passenger nearly overshot once :-)

D