Originally Posted by
BarracudaHockey
I'm extremely fortunate. Top Gun, Florida Jets, Nall, Perry Swap meet and a number of other events I attend are within a reasonable drive. But our field has two 400 foot paved runways, a large covered pits, bathrooms, kitchen, power, internet and WiFi (along with weather telemetry) and a great bunch of folks to hang out with. All that for 50 bux a year.
OTOW is nice, even the public field there in Ocala is fantastic.
Wow ! One of these days I'll have to take a couple of shots of our humble club field , we do have a rubber runway and some fairly good open area to fly in , in the middle of some otherwise fairly forested area , but amenities ? Oh good grief we only just got one of those "porta potty" things a few years ago and there is no power or buildings on the field . We do have some wooden stands to prep the models on , a chain link fence separating the live flightline from the pits with a windsock mounted to it , and that's about it other than one of those big ol metal storage/shipping boxes like you'd see in major ship's ports that keeps the club mower and some gas grills & the like outta the rain . But really and what I cant stress enough , is what a great group of guys we got and to me the people are what matter most . None of that club politics stuff that lots of folks complain of goes on , everybody gets along , and who knows , maybe it is our primitive conditions that helps foster a sense of comradeship among the troops ? When one person's plane ends up in the woods pretty much all the able bodied ones go out lookin for it , and rarely do they come out empty handed . This is my kind of club for sure and if you got that as well as a paradise location I'll say it again , Man you truly ARE blessed !

Cue the Gilligan's Island theme ; "No phone no lights no motor car , as primitive as can be" .......