HiddenLayer5@lemmy.ml to Mildly Interesting@lemmy.world · edit-21 year agoAn "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runwaylemmy.mlimagemessage-square219fedilinkarrow-up1970arrow-down131file-text
arrow-up1939arrow-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-21 year 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-squareSynthead@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up22·1 year agoThese little strips don’t use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.
minus-squareryolinkfedilinkarrow-up12·1 year ago unicom First thing I thought of reading on this tiny screen: 🦄 We need a community for keming.
minus-squareDa_Boom@iusearchlinux.fyilinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down1·1 year 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-21 year agoThey read it as unicor n hence the emoji.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up9·1 year 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-up1·1 year agoWhy do they need numbers? There’s only one runway.
minus-squareCaptain Aggravated@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkarrow-up3·1 year 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.
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.