HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agoAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlimagemessage-square219fedilinkarrow-up1972arrow-down131file-text
arrow-up1941arrow-down1imageAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlHiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-22 years agomessage-square219fedilinkfile-text
Location on a map: https://www.openstreetmap.org/?mlat=42.1486108&mlon=-88.5628734&zoom=17#map=17/42.14861/-88.56287
minus-squareDamage@feddit.itlinkfedilinkarrow-up35arrow-down1·2 years ago“honey, Joe’s wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?”
minus-squareSynthead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·2 years agoThese little strips don’t use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.
minus-squareryolinkfedilinkarrow-up12·2 years ago unicom First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄 We need a community for keming.
minus-squareDa_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·2 years agoNo, you read it right, UNICOM Or UNIversal COMmunications Also known as CTAF, or Common Traffic Advisory Frequency. Basically the frequency you use when you’re in uncontrolled airspace.
minus-squarestevehobbes@lemm.eelinkfedilinkarrow-up4·edit-22 years agoThey read it as unicor n hence the emoji.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·2 years agoA private (meaning, non-public) field like this one probably uses the multicom frequency, but yes. Self-announce on the CTAF. Irks me a bit there aren’t runway numbers.
minus-squarePlantDadManGuy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up1·2 years agoWhy do they need numbers? There’s only one runway.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·2 years agoA runway with two ends. And you’d probably be surprised how easy it is to choose one end when you mean another. Also to identify it from the air as a runway. It’s paved and they painted a centerline; I would have also painted numbers and thresholds.
minus-squareDa_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up4·2 years agoTower duty? Where we are going, we don’t need towers.
“honey, Joe’s wife is sick, can you take care of control tower duty today?”
These little strips don’t use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.
First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄
We need a community for keming.
No, you read it right, UNICOM
Or UNIversal COMmunications
Also known as CTAF, or
Common Traffic Advisory Frequency.
Basically the frequency you use when you’re in uncontrolled airspace.
They read it as unicor n hence the emoji.
A private (meaning, non-public) field like this one probably uses the multicom frequency, but yes. Self-announce on the CTAF. Irks me a bit there aren’t runway numbers.
Why do they need numbers? There’s only one runway.
A runway with two ends. And you’d probably be surprised how easy it is to choose one end when you mean another.
Also to identify it from the air as a runway. It’s paved and they painted a centerline; I would have also painted numbers and thresholds.
Tower duty? Where we are going, we don’t need towers.