private runway

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 14:55:31 -0400, Roy Smith wrote:


I think it's reasonable that it should be on the VFR chart, even if the
owner doesn't want it. The purpose of the VFR chart is to let people
navigate visually by depicting landmarks which are visible from the air.
Deliberately omitting a good landmark from a chart (and airstrips usually
make good landmarks) does a dis-service to every VFR pilot who flies in the
area.


2000 ft. grass strips look like every other hay field in many parts of
the country, and aren't all that useful as VFR features.

http://skyvector.com/#24-15-2-4755-3128

See Salmon River, right in the middle of the chart? For years, flying
with a chart, I thought it was a hay field. My GPS pointed it out
as an airport.

If it's paved, you've got a point.

On Sat, 04 Aug 2007 22:52:59 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:

2000 ft. grass strips look like every other hay field in many parts of
the country, and aren't all that useful as VFR features.

There are uncharted airports in southeastern New Hampshire /
northeastern Massachusetts that have taken me years to suss out. I
have noted them on my edition of Google Earth (a wonderful way to
pre-fly or post-fly a trip). And there are charted airfields that I
have never been able to find, probably because they've been turned
into housing developments.

I started flying in 1999, and once a week I'd drive through Stratham,
a rural community near Exeter NH. For at least six years, something
like 300 commutes, there was either an access road being put in or
houses under construction along the road. Now it's entirely built out,
which has the sad but at least peaceful resolution of no more
construction.

Blue skies! -- Dan Ford

Claire Chennault and His American Volunteers, 1941-1942
from HarperCollins on August 21 www.flyingtigersbook.com

On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Picture quality is better on live but the scroll rate SUCKS compared to
Google Earth.

Gig 601XL Builder wrote:
Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Picture quality is better on live but the scroll rate SUCKS compared
to Google Earth.

I hit send a little quick compare a place that isn't the center of the
universe.

http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=e...oc=add r&om=1

The blue hanger in the group of four on the far left is mine.

On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:07:39 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Picture quality is better on live but the scroll rate SUCKS compared to
Google Earth.


Unfortunately Live's high-res oblique image feature doesn't cover that
location in Arkansas:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 6 Aug 2007 11:07:39 -0500, "Gig 601XL Builder"
wrDOTgiaconaATsuddenlink.net wrote in
:

Larry Dighera wrote:
On Mon, 06 Aug 2007 06:19:34 -0400, Cubdriver usenet AT danford DOT
net wrote in :

I have noted them on my edition of Google Earth

How does Google Earth compare with this:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v...null&encType=1

Picture quality is better on live but the scroll rate SUCKS compared
to Google Earth.


Unfortunately Live's high-res oblique image feature doesn't cover that
location in Arkansas:
http://local.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&cp=33.215636~-
92.813004&style=a&lvl=17&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-
1000&scene=7017890&rtp=null~null&encType=1


And MS Live covers it with a MUCH older photo. My hanger and the one next to
it were both build in 2005. Neither show up in the MS Live photo.