How long does it take you to get to your airfield

[Admin]

With the ever increasing amount of airstrips being closed and taken over by housing and whatnot, the travel times it takes to get to your "local" airstrip can be a real dampener on the number of hours you fly each year.

 

No doubt in country areas the airstrip can only be minutes away, there are some that even have one in their own backyard but for others they have to travel an hour there and an hour back just to do some fun flying circuits or so.

 

This poll is to ascertain what the average travelling time is to get to your airstrip.

 

 

[Hongie]

About 7 minutes :) that's the pro, the con is there is no space for more aircraft

 

 

[brilin_air]

About roughly 10 mins from airfield to my house. :)

 

-Linda

 

 

[cscotthendry]

Two hours each way, not including a 1/2hr ferry trip each way, so overall 5 hours travel to do a days flying! Yeah, BIG disincentive timewise and costs heaps in fuel.

 

Gotta find an airfield closer to home.

 

 

[Gnarly Gnu]

Yeah this is a real problem, at least 1 hour each way means just to do a few circuits is realistically a half day exercise.

 

 

[skyfox1]

Takes me three minutes to get to my hanger and strip it is on my neighbors property.

 

 

[RKW]

If we could get rid of these bloody light poles.......

 

 

[peter]

This is a great question Ian , and I think it would be really interesting to correlate the response with aircraft ownership. I wonder if people are more prepared to fork out the cost of ownership if they think they can just pop out for a flight before brekkie or late afternoon or just go for a circuit or two knowing it won't be an all day affair.

 

 

[dazza 38]

1 hour 20 minutes each way. I wish I could hop out of my house and straight into a hangar.It does become a pain, as mentioned by GG.A hour flight turns into a half day excercise.

 

 

[Guernsey]

I can take off at any time providing it is not milking time.

 

Alan.

 

 

[gareth lacey]

45 mins on a good day

 

Cheers gareth

 

 

[rgmwa]

I wonder if people are more prepared to fork out the cost of ownership if they think they can just pop out for a flight before brekkie or late afternoon or just go for a circuit or two knowing it won't be an all day affair.

Nope. I'd argue that ownership is even MORE attractive if (like me) you have to pay to drive an hour and a half to the airfield, and THEN have to shake the last coins out of your wallet to hire the aircraft. Ownership at least gives you the illusion that you can fly for free even if it costs an arm and a leg and half a day to get to the strip. On the other hand, having the strip next door would be a pretty good incentive too.

 

rgmwa

 

 

[Tomo]

Depends, but the nearest is roughly about 50mtrs away...

 

 

[kaz3g]

It's about 30 minutes for me at the moment as I currently have BYM hangared at Coldstream, but I'm about to head off to a new job located in Shepparton and intend to buy a farm somewhere in the area big enough to keep my baby at home!

 

Happiness is a girl with her own airstrip

 

kaz:oh yeah:

 

 

[Mick]

I drive 30-45 minutes to get to the strip where my aircraft lives. It's very frustrating as I live 700 metres from an airport with no available hangar space. We continue to lobby council and the airport corporation to try to get some land to build our own hangar.

 

.

 

 

[Guest DJH]

Usually 45 mins., Liverpool to The Oaks.

 

Hoxton Park was 10 minutes away from home !!!

 

 

[sfGnome]

50 minutes to Warnervale (but no A/C currently there for hire), 90 min to the Oaks, 2 hours to Cessnock, so an hour's circuits at Cessnock is a 5 hour exercise (5.5 if you include set up / check out / chat / etc). I think that's the thing that tipped me over the edge towards ownership - if I'm going to travel a long way, I want it to be when I want, not when an aircraft is available! Mind you, I don't think that it took much pushing to get me over the edge...

 

 

[cheyenne]

6 minutes from home to my hanger at Bundy.

 

 

[Allegro2000]

Two options, To Mudgee where the aircraft is hangered 50 mins, however I have a strip on my property but being on top of a mountain means it is not an all weather strip. So it to Mudgee we go for the bulk of the year. Mudgee strip is good as it is on the doorstep of the town and the Council is developing it. Yes they charge high landing fees but at least by being in Mudgee Aero Club it softens the blow. If you look at the landing fee and the cost of a taxi to go in and out of town it is no so bad.

 

Allegro 2000

 

 

[furio]

It takes me about 2.5 hours to drive to the field. So about 5 hrs in the car and 2-4 hours in the plane add up to a long day. Fortunately there are places i can stay overnight if i need to. Have to say that i don't mind the drive, get to see some great country.

 

 

[flyerme]

Im lucky enough to have one in the back yard,also have another at my Pa,s for morning cuppas with the old boy.. It was one of my earliest dreams to have a small farm I could fly from,ride on..etc....livin the dream

 

 

[kermit]

3 minutes away from our shack dunalley

 

 

[Kyle Communications]

7 mins to my hangar at YCAB....

 

 

[eightyknots]

I thought that my choice (15-30 minutes) would be in the majority but no, it's the 'over one hour' group. That's sad .

 

I feel happy for the fortunate 1/8 who have an airstrip on their own property .

 

 

[Admin]

80knts, the results are very interesting aren't they!

 

How are we, as a species, ever going to get to the "Jetsons" age? Is it going to end up all rotary type aircraft with no runways, just pads?