{"id":707,"date":"2009-09-11T12:26:49","date_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:26:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=707"},"modified":"2009-09-11T12:45:18","modified_gmt":"2009-09-11T12:45:18","slug":"sweating-on-it-with-fingers-crossed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.micro-trike.co.uk\/wordpress\/sweating-on-it-with-fingers-crossed\/","title":{"rendered":"Sweating it out with fingers crossed"},"content":{"rendered":"

A friend of mine owns a property which is surrounded by grassland a sizeable chunk of which is pretty flat. I asked him a while ago if I might be allowed to keep MYRO there and he said he couldn’t see any reason why not. I reminded him of that the other day and he suggested that I should go and have a look as I hadn’t seen the property up to then.<\/p>\n

When I arrived I was literally gob-smacked. The property itself is beautiful but what’s more relevant to me is that it sits next to a small area of microlighting heaven. The land is fairly elevated so it’s pretty well drained for starters which is helped even more by the ground being quite sandy. Also the area in question is firm, flat and evenly grassed with only a modest east-west downslope and also nicely shaped so you could have a choice of directions in which to land and take off.<\/p>\n

The shortest ‘runway’ would be 06\/24, shown below, at 175 yards. At one end there is a wide gap in trees on the perimeter and at the other a group of low trees situated some way from the end of the ‘runway track’.<\/p>\n

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The next would be 11\/29 at 210 yards, shown below, with medium-size trees at one end and low trees at the other.<\/p>\n

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And finally there’s what would be 08\/26 at 250 yards, again with medium-size trees at one end and low trees at the other.<\/p>\n

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There are no nearby neighbouring properties that would be overflown on any of the above ‘runway centrelines’ which is, of course, a very valuable bonus and there’s even a lovely little sheltered spot between some high trees where MYRO could be left safely tied-down under covers.<\/p>\n

At the moment my friend is still thinking about it so I’m having to sweat it out with my fingers crossed. I really hope that from my point of view he comes to the ‘right’ decision because as well as solving a key problem for me, it would also give me a superb venue to fly from, as it’s situated quite nicely almost in the centre of Kent.<\/p>\n

I’ll let you know how it turns out.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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