Marxism-Fennekinism to Mildly [email protected] • edit-22 years agoAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlimagemessage-square246fedilinkarrow-up1967cross-posted to: [email protected]
arrow-up1967imageAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlMarxism-Fennekinism to Mildly [email protected] • edit-22 years agomessage-square246fedilinkcross-posted to: [email protected]
Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287
minus-square@[email protected]linkfedilink2•2 years agoAren’t there usually strips of lights on the approach before the runway itself? At least for normal commercial airports they are present.
minus-squareCaptain_Enderlinkfedilink2•2 years agoNaw most VFR unguided airstrips like this don’t have anything in the way of landing assistance. The idea being that they’d never fly at night time and divert to a nearby IFR airport if there’s sudden weather. Like literal fair weather pilots.
Aren’t there usually strips of lights on the approach before the runway itself? At least for normal commercial airports they are present.
Naw most VFR unguided airstrips like this don’t have anything in the way of landing assistance. The idea being that they’d never fly at night time and divert to a nearby IFR airport if there’s sudden weather. Like literal fair weather pilots.