I started flying from the back side of ONeil airport between Lawrenceville Illinois and Vincennes Indiana. I am well familiar with grass strips including the ones around Bloomington Indiana. In the last 35 years I have found many more fixed position fields than the situation you describe. Currently I fly from mowed grass, Propex, and concrete depending on which field I am using. While I can fly most of them from grass there are some that don't do well on the grass even after the gang type reel mowers have been over it more than once. Aerobatic stuff in the 40% range is probably the easiest to fly from grass, scale jets on the other hand tend to turn into high speed turf rippers.
ORIGINAL: k3 valley flyer
We have flown all types of planes from our grass field, warbirds, 3-D, gas, etc up to 40%, key is field needs to be smooth and well mowed. I never said anything about not being able to fly from the side or turn both ways etc, we have a lot of pilots who can fly almost anywhere. Our point was our field procedures allow more pilots of different skill levels to fly safely. Those who want to practice flying, landing, or taking off cross wind are free to do so, but don't have to if you don't want to or can't do so safely. A lot of fields have been configured with fixed runways, stations, parking etc because of physical limitations, or because someone decreed that is the way a field has to be laid out. Just saying there may be better ways. Lot of people think an RC field has to function like a full scale airport, in the midwest we have alot of grass fields that prove it doesn't have to.