Originally Posted by Top_Gunn

No airports in their area? In a lot of places, including the county where I live, it may be impossible to find a field suitable for flying that is not within five miles of some airport. And even if you do find one, what's to keep the farmer down the road from buying a plane, putting in a grass strip, and getting on the FAA's airport list? A lot of the posts in this thread seem to assume that an "airport" is a place with paved runways, hangars, and maybe even a control tower. The great majority of the airports the FAA recognizes are not like that. Most of them aren't even on the sectional charts. If the FAA's proposed definition were limited to public airports, it would be something we could live with. But it isn't. For a club to buy and improve its own field with this kind of threat hanging over its head would be foolish.

This is the second post in this thread saying, in effect, "my club is going to be fine." Well, that's nice for you, but most of us don't belong to your club. So what's the point, really?