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Article: Landing on Private Air Strips – Who’s protected?

I agree with being courteous and respectful. You have to respect these folks. They spent their money to grade the strip and seed it. Then they spend their time and more money mowing the strip on a regular basis, and maintaining it. I will bet that there are some interesting stories behind these airstrips. I would love to hear the who, what, where and how they came to be. A now friend of mine, Bill F. I met by noticing a scar in the woods in Northern Wisconsin. I landed, introduced myself, listened to a great life story, was invited to stay the night. Bill insisted that I roll my plane into his hangar. I will never forget his hospitality, or his stories.

Yup, that's what I find also when I land when finding new places.

Glenn
 
I agree with being courteous and respectful. You have to respect these folks. They spent their money to grade the strip and seed it. Then they spend their time and more money mowing the strip on a regular basis, and maintaining it. I will bet that there are some interesting stories behind these airstrips. I would love to hear the who, what, where and how they came to be. A now friend of mine, Bill F. I met by noticing a scar in the woods in Northern Wisconsin. I landed, introduced myself, listened to a great life story, was invited to stay the night. Bill insisted that I roll my plane into his hangar. I will never forget his hospitality, or his stories.


Met a great guy by doing just that - dropping in. Just heard from a friend of a friend that there was a new airstrip and the owner was friendly. Decided to drop in one day, one of the nicest people in the world. Made a video about it a couple of years ago.

 
I landed at a friends new strip and was surprised by the photographer taking my picture until I realized it was the local newspaper and "Phil" was taking a local contractors mother for the first flight and christening his new strip :oops:. I felt good after as he was the first to land on mine ;-). Also know of a guy doing a 920' landing on a 900' strip. Only good thing was it was rebuilt there, only a few years later have a beach named after him.
 
Might be a little off subject but !!!! I was out on a beautiful warm summer day, mowing my 4000 ft. X 100 ft. grass
runway on my trusty Ford tractor, half asleep when from behind me not 10 ft above came a good friend returning from a water bomber drop on a fire in a B-26. When he went overtop of me, I damn near filled my pants. I am 6ft.3in. and
Every last bit of me was below the steering wheel of that tractor !!!!
 
I've got a circa 1700' private strip (well I own 1500' of it and the other guy and I have reciprocal easements for the entire thing) and folks are always welcome to drop by. No hangar and no repair facilities, so at one's own risk if they set something other than a 12/14/18 or 180/185 down on it.

No offense intended but the more aircraft traffic, the better in September as the strip is ATV accessible and pilots have always (for 30+ years) been more aware of and respectful of property considerations that some of the ATV crowd.
 
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