Originally Posted by
BarracudaHockey
The head on runway in that shot is actually 400, the left to right is 300 but that's the heli/drone flight line.
The issue jet guys have is that hill to the south of the main runway, smaller jets are fine but bigger ones you have to come down that hill without building too much speed then flare, land, and stop.
45 size jets are no problem
Thanks Andy! I was actually considering coming up to Gateway to check out the fun fly at the end of February. I'm starting to look for alternatives to Cape Coral. Urbanization is winning at our field. It is becoming more restrictive, because a snowbird decided to ruin our field by building a house at the end of our runway. It is becoming too restrictive to fly the larger, high performance jets. I was considering JAX, because of the two jet fields in close proximity.
Our runway is 600' long. I'm at the approach end. The house is about 1200' from the other end. The boundary is being moved to our entrance road. This makes the boundary only about 600' from the other end of the runway. Difficult to fly a right pattern. The left to right pattern isn't much better.
I'm on his lanai looking at our runway.
I'm in his living room. What idiot builds a $550k+ house near a runway and not expect issues? Well, this idiot. And, he has complained.