----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- Hi John, If you live out in the country and want to do this on your "back forty", I'd go around and ask all of your neighbors if they'd have any objections if you started landing your plane in your "back pasture". After you've done it a few times go around again and ask them all if it bothers them any. If all is okay thus far, I'd just start using it on a regular basis and try not to fly directly over any houses. Let the neighbors know that you're willing to take them for a ride once in a while. (Good 'PR' goes a long way.) The other way would be to go to your County Court House, land use deptartment and see what they say about it. If your county is anything like mine is, after you ask that question you can get up off the floor and go home with your tail between your legs and wish you'd stayed in bed this morning. I own an airport that was built prior to WWII.. Many years later a new department was 'invented' by the county which has to do with land use and 'zoning'. They decided that since there were a lot of farms around the area that they would zone the airport land as 'agricultural'. The airport (and existing hangars) are 'grandfathered' in so they can stay but I'm not allowed to erect any additional hangars or in any other way "Further the 'missuse' of Agricultural Land". So, over half of my land is unusable, all I'm allowed to do with it is pay taxes. I don't have the money to hire an attorny and try to fight them and get the property 're-zoned, so I have only 10 hangars on it when I have room to put two long rows of T-hangars on the other side of the runway. This would not only help my income, but there just 'aren't enough hangars' around this area and a lot of planes are sitting outside because there just aren't any hangars to be rented. Don't ask me what I think about this county and the way it's run! There are several other small airports in this area with the same problem, but none of them are as old as mine. I wish you the best of luck John, let us know how you make out.
Bob Saville N3396H 415C Eugene, OR BTW, where are you located? John Cooper wrote: > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > Does anyone know in general what you need to do in order to put in a private > landing strip? I mean, who do you need to get permission from and how > difficult is it generally? > > Thanks, > John > > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ___________________________________________________________ > T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 > Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ___________________________________________________________ T O P I C A The Email You Want. http://www.topica.com/t/16 Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Your Favorite Topics
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