An "airport neighbourhood" where people can store their planes in their yard and taxi directly to the runway

You won't commute with a plane like this lol.

Why not? Less risk of being hit by a plane if they're in the sky and requirements for a pilot license are much stricter. In a plane crash occupants are more likely to die than innocent bystanders, compared to cars that are designed for safety only for those on the inside.

Enjoy being stuck behind the asshole in a C130 with trucknutz.

I've lived under a flight path, ~9km/6miles from the airport - while I understand the difference between a 787 and a Cessna 172, I've got no earthly idea why anyone would choose to have a runway in their front yard.

For the people living there I am sure that's a feature, not a bug.

I lived adjacent to a neighborhood like this. It was much quieter than middle aged neighbors with Harley’s. Little Cessnas and Pipers are not that loud.

I imagine the people living there probably don't need to commute at all anymore, or if they do, it's definitely not at 7 in the morning.

I live basically across the street from an Air Force base so I get turboprops over the house at 1,000 feet starting at about 7:00 5-6 days a week. Doesn't bother me or my wife, we just like planes.

You won't commute like this lol

Clarification: Only piston aircraft require leaded fuel. Which is unfortunately a pretty big part of the general aviation market, but similarly sized turboprops do also exist (though are more expensive) and it doesn't apply to modern commercial aviation at all.

Yep, and the FAA is taking it's sweet time to approve a new unleaded fuel for general aviation that shows a lot of promise called G100UL. It's estimated it could take another 6-9 years. Otherwise it's currently only approved for specific planes and not available at most airports and aerodromes.

Disgusting.

He already did make a video on it lol

Fascinating. Thanks for sharing.

lmao wow, how fascinating. when you think you saw it all..

They are somewhat common-ish if you know where to look. I fly by one a lot!

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These exist all across the country! Here's a fun fact, the street signs are all 2 feet tall in these neighborhoods so that even low-wing airplanes can make turns around corners that have signs without risk of completely destroying their plane.

This is an exclusive neighborhood where only environmentalist TikTok influencers live /s

There are thousands of them.

Yup, John Travolta had and maybe still has a house like this to park his Boeing 707.

These little strips don't use a tower. Pilots communicate with each other on unicom.

Tower duty? Where we are going, we don't need towers.

It's obviously for plane nerds that won't mind.

Depends, looks like small planes, and even if 10 come and go everyday you would quickly stop hearing them at all (the brain is very good at ignoring useless stimuli)

See, there are some weird types like me who actually like the smell of 100LL, and don't mind plane noise. I'd live there. But yeah, it's definitely not for everyone.

Small airports like these really don't smell like much. Sure: the fueling area, hangers, and maintenance shops have a smell, but it's non existent as soon as you're 50 feet away from them.

What is fucked up is how much leaded fuel gets dumped on the ground. Part of the pre-flight check for planes is taking a sample of gas from the lowest point in the tanks (the "sump") to make sure there's no water in it. It's usually done with a tool like this one. A lot of pilots just toss the fuel sample on the ground rather than "dispose" of it properly.

It grows on kerosene.

Everyone parks their personal train in their yard?

Railroad suburbs exist! Streetcar suburbs as well. Was actually the norm outside of the city core until they started ripping up all the rail lines to build highways.

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Just don't go outside eZ

What do they do as a job?

There are a bunch of these around. In my old city we had two nearby. One was nice kind of like this, one was just a grass field out by cornfields.

At your summer house

• https://www.noblehousehotels.com/best-ways-experience-canals-fort-lauderdale/

Yeah, but there's an HOA. :/

Here's one I was thinking of near Ocala, FL, I believe John Travolta has/had a place there:

29.2747779, -82.1204260

And another one in Yucca Valley, CA:

34.1289163, -116.4077455

Whoa. That area has things that look like roads, but are extended taxiways from the homes to the runway. For the early-alphabet taxiways there's a clear distinction between the public roads and the taxiways. The roads end in dead-ends before the runways, and the taxiways end in dead-ends before the roads.

But, when you get to taxiway echo, it actually crosses Spruce Creek Blvd. So, you could be slowing down to a stop sign, only to see a plane taxi across the road in front of you. I wonder how often cars end up on that taxiway by accident.

Those go against HOA rules.

Because this is a small general aviation field. This is for doctors flying their Cirrus SR22 in and out of. You might be surprised how many airfields are probably around you and how many of those are just a strip of grass with some hangers off to the side.

I can't imagine this being used for anything other than daylight VFR flying, which doesn't need radio guidance or even guidance in general beyond the airstrip itself. It's also possible that there are lights, and they're just too small to see when not lit.

It’s not necessarily required. All landings are visual maneuvers anyway; lights just help you see in non-ideal weather conditions

Dont need an ILS to land every time. Hell you dont even need a landing light legally for non commercial flights

These people are rich, but they're not the wealthy. These are your doctor types, not your billionaires. Doctors are paid well for sure, but they should be paid well.

My wife's grandparents used to live in a sky park like that. Right before the birth of my second child I was laid off and my wife was doing her student teaching. Suddenly in a rough situation with no income. Her grandparents came to visit for Christmas and their way of commiserating with us was to say, "I know how it is; we just had to sell our second airplane..." No irony, not joking. They honestly felt that losing one of their airplanes was equitable to losing a job with 2 babies in the house. It's ok though, I came out on top. I have a job now and they're both dead.

Not really the same "rich" that need to be eaten...