Well Blue up, you might just be right! (eh Rob? ;) ) The milking parlour stainless tubing was the perfect size for my VW exhaust pipes so why not? lol Not as quiet as yours I must admit, but not bad!

Dammit, I remember the days when a 50 acre working dairy farm could be purchased for that price :( ... worse thing is that it also made more money per acre then than it does now!!!! :{

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IO540..don't know if this would be any help to you but AOPA have got a planning department. I think it's a lady in there that used to be a town planner. They are there to fight your case so you should get in touch with her and just ask because i'm sure she would have some experience of people who want to do what you and I want....

Noob question......

Is this the dream or is there more to it?

http://www.buytofly.co.uk/#pics01

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That's Slinfold. Not far from Dunsfold. It's real allright. A nice airfield, established with (IIRC) full planning. It came on the market 1-2 years ago at £1.8M (I still have the newspaper cutting dated 17 Feb 2005 right here) and I thought I heard it was sold quite some months ago. I don't have £1.5M and it's a bit far for me to drive so I didn't buy it. Otherwise it seems ideal.

A lot of money to pay for the house though (worth 750k I guess) and having to put up with other pilots coming and going. It's purely a "pilot's purchase" but few UK private pilots will have 1.5M to spend. Slinfold is also not exactly in an attractive area, IMHO, for the price.

It's a bit like that air park in Murcia, Spain, that has been "nearly ready" for several years. It looks great but then you have to ask yourself whether you really want to live next to a busy airport (they would have a school there) and pay a premium price for the house and live in the middle of nowhere. The formula works with US air parks, where one has low activity.

It seems to me that the real issue is if you want to operate a decent long distance plane from a strip. If you want to fly a microlight or something like a Maule that gets airborne in 100m or so, you have many more options. For something like a TB20 or an SR22 one needs 700m of good flat grass. One can get airborne in 300-400m but not if it's raining.

Thanks IO - I can only ever dream :{

It appears this strip has a may have a chequered history:confused: See the link for more! http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news...d36221fa88.lpf I am sure Soothwater and Slinfold are one and the same? Maybe thats why it was up for sale!:sad: