[TowerTalk] FAA & Private Airstrips

[Ed Haggerty]

Bill

Unless you have a deep hatred for airplanes and people who fly them......please contact the owner/operator of the airstrip and inform them of the position and hight of your tower.

73  Ed  KB3TOX

On 29 Dec, 2011, at 7:56 PM, William Hein wrote:

> My family and I recently moved to a wonderful house in beautiful Glade Park CO (on the other side of Colorado National Monument from Grand Junction.  The house itself is an ultra-energy efficient Earthship (Google "Glade Park Earthship" for more info).  We have 35 rural acres of land around our house in a low population density rural area.  All in all it's going to be a great place for ham radio.
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> The FAA Website TOWAIR indicated that "Structure does not require registration"after I plugged in my coordinates along with elevation (6840-ft ASL approx.). There are no airports within 8 kilometers (5 miles) of the coordinates you provided."  TOWAIR went on to caution "TOWAIR's findings are not definitive or binding".  Since "Pinyon Airport" (a rather pretentious designation for a grass airstrip with a windsock) is 5.5 km away I am guess it is either not registered with the FAA or somehow doesn't count as a real airport.
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> I have a 142-foot Big Bertha tower which I previously had installed in Vermont which I intend to reinstall here along with at least one other 100-ft + tower and a few smaller structures.  For many reasons I'd hate to see a airplane run into Bertha.
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> So what should I do now?  Contact the FAA for an opinion?  Find out who owns the airstrip and give them a verbal or written heads up on my tower plans and also request they avoid flying low over my house?  Something else?
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> 73
> Bill
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> William Hein, AA7XT
> (ex-AA4XT, NT1Y, AA6TT, KC6EDP)
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