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Old 01-24-2006 | 12:59 AM
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piper28
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Default RE: Flying field quality

Our club has it pretty good from what I've seen. 1000' east/west runway, and a shorter north/south runway. Both are grass, but from what I've seen they're kept in excellent condition. A series of tables to setup the plane, some simple bleachers for spectators, a large shed for storage of maintenance related stuff, attached the shed is a pavilion covering a concrete area with some seating and the frequency board (facing the e/w runway). Small pavilion on the n/s runway. No electricity (generator used during events) or running water (ye olde porta potty). Between time zone shifts in the summer tuesdays are instructor nights, and there's a group of instructors that work very hard to help you learn to fly. All this for $60/year plus AMA membership.

Farmland surrounds the field. North and west we have soy crops, which have the advantage of being fairly low plants. East and south are corn. For the record, neither is particularly fun to try to walk through. I've heard the farm fields use pig manure to fertilize too, but haven't had the chance to experience that. (Then again, I drive by MSU's research fields every day to/from work, and you can always tell when it's fertilization time there).