I agree about the Lockyears' lengths. The fact that published lat and long are sometimes way out is just as dangerous. There have been a couple of Air Accident reports where the wrong distances are the major factor. The CAA exhortation to pace it out first is great for departures. What about arrivals?
My uncertainty about the Mount Rule runways is based on the context of the plural. If only two, then only one leg of the cruciform is runway. Even then it could be just from one end to the centre.
One is decidedly uphill / downhill, whereas the other arm passes directly over the two large houses from where, I'm assuming, some of the complaints originate.
There's obviously money in farming. I traced the farm to Tristar Farms Ltd. A check on G-INFO showed he owns three a/c. A PA32, an Archer and a C337. One of the latter can be seen, on GE, at Andreas. I also saw a reference to Hezlett operating a charter setup from Andreas, presumably with the twin, which I've seen overhead a couple of times, over the years.
Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:
I doubt the owner has ever properly measured the strip so if you want measurements it would probably be better to take the bearings and distancesdirectly from GE.I did a random check of private strip lengths in GE and found many were much shorter than the Lockyear figures - in truth all figures for private strips have to be treated with great caution. None are measured with any accurate tools. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 11 October 2009 08:53 To: jhb@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [jhb] Re: Mount RuleI already have the location, having done a farm strip location, last year. It stands out very clearly in the Horizon scenery and even more so in the Earth version I'm currently testing.What I'm interested in, because of what I can see on the footprint, is runway length and any conditions applying, etc. In the Earth version the narrowness you mention is even more noticeable than before. In both versions there seems to be a sort of hiatus, at the point where what I've assumed to be the two runways cross.Apparently he's still having trouble with the neighbours. They stopped his planning application for a hangar but I don't suppose they can stop flying, under the 28 day rule.One thing that intrigues me, bearing in mind the strip's height and distance from the coast, is an item that's clearly visible in GE and the scenery. A boat is parked part way along what I assumed to be a taxiway!Gerry Winskill Fossil wrote:Look at my UK Airfield Catalogue.If you grab the KML file you can see the location in Google Earth. The runways are barely a wingspan wide. bones bones@xxxxxxx -----Original Message----- From: jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:jhb-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Gerry Winskill Sent: 10 October 2009 22:12 To: JHB Restricted Subject: [jhb] Mount RuleThe Mount Rule farm strip, outside Douglas, isn't mentioned in my oldish copy of Lockyears. A recent web trawl unearthed a blog that said it is now mentioned. If anyone has a recent copy, I'd appreciate any info it has on runways etc.Gerry Winskill
