Originally Posted by
franklin_m
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.
That response is simply unacceptable. There are some flying fields in major cities in the US. Seems unlikely they were unable to locate a field in what appears to be farm country.
I've seen plenty of instances where modelers are unwilling to go out of there way to find a field and this sounds like one of them.