Hello Remi,
thanks about that - I have also always liked your style.
About our modest landing strips:
- 12/30 is parallel with 110 kV power lines, distance say 100 metres, no
problem
- 03/21 is vertically with the lines so, that the line is over the
strip, and the line is 50 metres from the threshold of the 21
That means:
- landings ok only to 12/30
- take offs only 12/30 and 21
- you cannot (you can, at least I have done so) land to 03, because in
the case of aborted landing, you have to take off under the pwr lines
- you cannot (you can, at least I have done so) land to 21, because then
you practically have to fly under the lines
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Now I will report you a not-so-funny-story.
We had 2013 only 03/21. That was 500 m long. Good one.
But take off only 21 (good) and landing only 03 (normally bad because
here normally western winds).
So I poured of the forest from our land and heureka, I was able to land
to the opposite wind 21!
My wife refused to land under the power lines, and without a doubt, it
was a bit scary to land under them, because they are practicvally invisible.
Here is a satellite photo about it:
So, I called to the power company:
"Hello, its me, your good customer. Our children are sad because of
those dead swans, which we regularly can find under your cables.
Please, bring here some large red warning balls to the birds". "Yes, we
will do that, thanks for calling".
Then they came with a huge crane, but when the foreman saw our strip, he
understood instantly, and said something I will not write here.
Uh!
And soon after the managing director of the company wrote us a letter -
"its strictly forbiden to use this area for aircraft actions".
He even wrote, that we will jeopardize the national security if using
our strip! I wrote a long letter - you know - and at the end
of the letter I said "fuck you" and wrote "we strictly follow The
Finnish law and authoritativies - and you idiot are not the one!"
After one week we got a letter from the Finnish FAA & Ministry of
Transport: "you are not allowd to use your airstrip in Lempl.
If you continue to do so, we are going the cancel all of your flight
documents". What a day!
20-years of our dream had collapsed totally.
Happily there was an awful early winter snow storm. Over 300.000 people
---From Finland were w/o electricitet. I wrote in the 2nd biggest
newspaper about this, and gave a (free) solution to Elenia how to solve
this problem, which is a bit embarrassing, because people are dying,
suffering a lot, and its so fucken frustrating to be w/o el!
A Miracle Happened; Power Company Elenia happen to made a new risk
assessment and "recommended" to the landowner, that
"Toivios must get a new strip which is parallel with a power line". That
was just after Xmas 2015 - 23.12.2015.
Now you know. Flying is not so easy, always...
Welcome!
Cheers,
Raimo
Europa OH-XRT 417
Finland
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2.1.2017, 18:08, Remi Guerner kirjoitti:
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> Raimo,
> It looks like your landing strip is located just under power lines!
> Surprising!
Could you please provide some more info so that I can locate this place on
a map of Finland?
> I like your stories. Do not hesitate to write more!
> Best regards
> Remi
> F-PGKL
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> Read this topic online here:
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> http://forums.matronics.com/viewtopic.php?p=464609#464609
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