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Old 08-23-2005 | 05:47 AM
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From: Galloway, NJ
Default RE: Flying in Baltimore area?

Hi Greg.

I went to your web site and took a look around. Man, is that impressive!

I also found our club, Atlantic County Skyblazers, Atlantic County, NJ. We have two fields, and there is some issue as to what one is our main field mainly because one field, Riverbend, is mainly used by helicopter flyers because it is smaller than our other field, Strawberry. I took note of your lat/long coordinates which are in decimal. Here is the coordinate for Strawberry which is in degrees/minutes/seconds. You may have our old field listed which is now a golf course..[:@].

Strawberry is 39 19 18.16N 74 43 29.7W. 43 feet altitude.

Riverbend is 39 22 23.13N 74 42 26.41W 7 feet.

Strawberry is located in Mays Landing, NJ. If you use Google Map, you can zoom in on Mays Landing, zoom out a bit till you see the race track (it is along the Black Horse Pike, NJ route 322) then go north-west along the pike. The field is very visible using the Google Map Hybrid or Satellite view because it actually looks like an airport. It is a very nice grass runway that the NJ Department of Forestry uses when there is a forest fire in the pineland forests. They land aerial tankers there for refuel and filling in the water tanks.

Riverbend is a part of the county park, an area that was supposed to be converted into a ball field, they chose another area instead and gave us permission to fly there.

Since we started the two fields, Stockton College, which is in Galloway Township, gave us permission to use their large field, which is at 39 29 11.56N 74 33 13.14W 52 feet.

So, we have three places to fly and loving it!

Thanks again for your information. As you may have noticed, I registered on your web site and will take advantage of it

DS.