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An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway (lemmy.ml)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I can't imagine this being used for anything other than daylight VFR flying, which doesn't need radio guidance or even guidance in general beyond the airstrip itself. It's also possible that there are lights, and they're just too small to see when not lit.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Aren't there usually strips of lights on the approach before the runway itself? At least for normal commercial airports they are present.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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.