Originally Posted by
Chris P. Bacon
Why couldn't the club find another suitable site outside of a military base?
Not in an area where the few towns that do exist are almost totally surrounded by large commercial farming operations and year round crop dusting activities. No farmer was willing to accept the liability of having model aircraft operating on his land knowing that crop dusters would be transiting to and from any number of other fields at 500'. The military base option was the only way to find protected airspace.