Ziggy by Tom Wilson & Tom II for February 27, 2022

I’d say it is. A little to convenient. Give this house a skip Ziggy.

Is the airport infested with gremlins?

Ziggy, there’s your new one-wheel.

“I am serious—and don’t call me Shirley.”

united??

Most months, you can pay the mortgage by selling airplane parts!

Just watch out for Blue Ice :-x

maybe too convenient…

Evidently airlines pay good money to get parts back.. this could work out well Ziggy

I remember driving by the Dallas-Fort Worth airport, and seeing tire tracks on the roofs…

Just a little too close…

cycle: airport built out of town – area surrounding is “developed” for convenient access to airport – residents complain of noise from airport – airport built farther out of town…

HEY, I didn’t put my house up for sale, quit showing it…..unless of course you can get what the tax department says it’s worth.

This almost never happens. Mostly you get small chunks of peculiarly blue ice. :)

Many years ago, I worked at a college in the Houston area. There was a beautiful subdivision right across the street, and I wanted to live there, but couldn’t afford to do so. A few years later, the airport, which was just a few miles away, built a new landing strip and, all of a sudden, when planes came in for a landing, they looked like they were going to land on the buildings, or on the houses in that beautiful subdivision across the street. It made me very happy that we couldn’t afford to live there, and I’ll bet that their property values took a nose dive. Just as an aside, my husband, who had been a helicopter pilot, said that the planes were required to be no less than 500 ft. above any structure. He was with me one day when a plane came in for a landing, and I said, “Is that 500 feet?” With a rather surprised look on his face, he said. “No.”

As mentioned by several others, the minimum altitude in other than congested areas is 500 ft. In congested areas it goes up to 1000 ft above the highest obstacle within 2000 ft horizontally (https://www.govregs.com/regulations/14/91.119).

Aircraft landing and taking off, by physical necessity, have to be below minimum altitudes during final approach and initial departure. If structures exist too close to the airfield then the conflict is unavoidable and allowed by regulation.

And @KEA succinctly describes the problem a few comments above. Folks want convenience then complain when they get it.

As a pilot I’ve always used 1000 ft as my minimum altitude everywhere, when not governed by other rules, and I’ll generally go higher if I reasonably can, just to give me more thinking time should something unfortunate happen, like a stopped engine (my airplane only has the one).

Oh, and planes don’t “crash” just because the engine quit…. they just land a lot sooner than originally planned and if done well there is no crash involved.

Maybe just a touch too convenient.

It’s nice, wheelie nice.