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Old 24th Jan 2016, 18:30
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Piltdown Man
 
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The runway length is not your problem. Your nemeses are the people you will be selling to. Wealthy people who fly their own planes are a menace. They insist that they are the only people on Earth who know what they are doing. Unfortunately they are not as good as they think they are. They are brilliant at stealing cash the likes of you and me but they don't fly enough to be good at it. They like ripping people off too much. If you build a 4,000M runway, 60M wide and they miss, it's your problem. Unless you specify who can operate into and out of your strip then you'll be destitute by the end of the first week as your rapacious clients attempt to their aircraft on your strip. The human inside of me says make your strip slightly too small and slightly too narrow to make safe operations possible. Make it so that they take at least one other greedy grasper out whenever they foul up.

Best of luck!

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