Help with flying site

[ray06]

Our club has been flying from a closed landfill for several years. The area around our field is starting to have a lot of building around the field. So we are looking to find another site. We are going to approach the city to see if anything else is available. I would like to have several photos of other flying fields that are on cith property to take with us when we approach the city officals. I would like any clubs that use city or county property to post a photo of their field. Thanks Raymond

[Boulder]

Ray,

You can grab the satellite photo off of the RCCD thread in this forum, it's State of Michigan property, but it might do you some good.

C'mon fellas, let's all try and give Ray a hand here!!

Thanks in advance.

I thought I'd bring it to your thread for you, I don't know if it will help, did it anyway.

[Biff]

Raymond, what part of NC are you?

[ray06]

Statesville N C

[dai]

men do like me, if you have 50 feet free, you can do it, just look at me I fly whit a glow one, all the people near this (three football fields) want me out, but I .... keep flying.
The message is just do it, even if you have to launch your model from your hands
just follow the passion


P.D. look their house in background ( 9:00 am and all this mens whit headache cause alll their drink beer the lastnight) they said lets get out of here ******* .... just like in the western)
but I keep flying muajajajajajajaj

_______poetical or not????________

[dai]

cheat I forgot the pic

[kombat kid]

50 feet huh? seems kinda small..

[ray06]

Thanks Dai don"t think I could land my Pitts there. I need a field like Kenny. Kenny thats a great flying field.

[cfour_1]

we are haveing the same problem here i live in a small town in oklahoma and we where flying on this guys feild forever then he sold the land to the city so we are looking for a new feild was thinking of going to city council and try to get a city funded feild but our council is the "good old boys" kinda people so we will see how it goes

chris

[Boulder]

	Quote: Originally Posted by ray06
	Thanks Dai don"t think I could land my Pitts there. I need a field like Kenny. Kenny thats a great flying field.

Thanks Ray,

We have about 1200 x 300 groomed, with another 300 of brush before the trees, in the width.
It intimidates some fliers because we are surrounded by trees, but it isn't hard to fly inside the tree line, just looks scary.

cfour,

Good luck with your search, it's gotta' suck losing your field.

[spun]

Interseting, Our club is here in SoCal, thers is a $hit load of building going on. We are also on a closed land fill. We managed to get our club in exclusionary agreement(?) for the development across the road from us. And we belong to the Chamber of Commerce, it gives you some credibility. You want to come across a a well organized group rather than a bunch of dudes with toy planes, no whatta' mean? But to the good part, We had this issue come up not to long ago. I seriously doubt ( read as "it aint happening") that you will lose your field to someone who wants to buy the land. It is entirely to costly to re-open, clean and then move all that old trash to a new dump. It just isnt cost effective. The EPA and so on make it next to impossible. SOOOooo, you have to make the club as responsible and well organized as possible. Make liason with the developers and with the county and city government, and build a good relationship with them. It takes work, invite the local elementary kids for a day or go to the school etc. Have the scouts cook at your next fun fly, if the community sees you as family oriented, good clean, all american fun, it will be on your side when it comes to keeping the site.

And if you do have to move, get with the AMA as soon as you can and look into the superfund sites.

Good luck with it,

[spun]

Oh yeah, www.mvf-club, our club is on county property by the way.