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Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:24 pm
by bagarre
I could do 4 miles but I'd rather not base out of Dulles
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Mon Nov 10, 2014 9:32 pm
by Ryan Smith
bagarre wrote:I could do 4 miles but I'd rather not base out of Dulles
Being from Alexandria, northern Virginia is technically home, even though we've been North Carolinians since 1993. I love going up that way, but it seems like every time I go back, it's a bigger and bigger PITA to live there.
I would like to go visit what's left of W32 sometime, as that's where we based all of our airplanes when we were living up that way. It looks like we were 12.5 miles from it by car, or about 6 as the crow flies. Google says that it's a 40 minute commute.
No thanks.
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 8:08 pm
by GAHorn
I may be the luckiest guy in the discussion... Married to a woman who will beat me to the plane if I utter a sentence which contains the words "go flying" ... and my hangar is at the end of our house and attached to 27 acres consisting to two, 3500'+ crossing runways that I have total control over in a durable and exclusive aircraft right-of-way...while the absent landowner's trust pays all the taxes and owns all the liabilities. All I have to do is grab a cold one, crank up the tractor, and go mow every once in a while. (Blind squirrels DO find acorns occasionally,...)
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Sat Nov 15, 2014 9:03 pm
by Heflin
Two runways? Wow!
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 4:10 am
by blueldr
What the hell kind of pilot needs TWO runways?
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:10 pm
by Watkinsnv
77NV 40 Acre lots 80X80 Hangar
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2014 8:12 pm
by GAHorn
The kind that...as luck would have it.... hasn't the time to take advantage of them.
(But wait until MAY! Jamie says I'm "retiring" in May.)
Then I can care for them properly perhaps...
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 5:23 pm
by cessna170bdriver
gahorn wrote:The kind that...as luck would have it.... hasn't the time to take advantage of them.
(But wait until MAY! Jamie says I'm "retiring" in May.)
Then I can care for them properly perhaps...
George, I hear that the city of Austin now offers runway snow removal:
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Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Thu Nov 20, 2014 7:59 pm
by johneeb
Miles,
Is that a drone snow plow? I do not see a door for an operator to get inside.
maybe I could make one of those out of a couple of Schwinn electric scooters
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 6:02 pm
by GAHorn
That's one that Aryana made to go with his 27% project!
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Fri Nov 21, 2014 10:25 pm
by Kyle Wolfe
Gives me an idea for my Isetta!
Re: How long is your 170's airstrip?
Posted: Sat Nov 22, 2014 1:10 pm
by rydfly
Here's a snowy pic of 37I, our 3450' strip at the Troy Skypark.