ORIGINAL: carlosponti
why are you having to set-up a new field? did the Lawton club have to move? I used to fly at the shawnee club and they had to move their runway 200 feet south of where it was because a neighbour complained to AMA that they were flying over his property and he wanted it stopped.
There was a field located on Ft. Sill that has been used for 40 years. This year the Army decided they have a better use for the land. The actually got a bit crappy about it. They did offer us an alternate piece of land, but it was stuck out in the middle of nowhere and "barely" usable. So we did some hunting and located 80 acres off post that we are leasing now. We are building a new runway using ProPex material which we are actually going to come out with a better field than we ever had on Ft. Sill. Our new runway is going to be 40'x400' and setup so that it can be flown both morning and evenings!!!!
Ken