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Do You Have A Navaid In Your Backyard?

Efohdee From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 214 posts, RR: 0
Posted (8 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3003 times:

Would like one, what kind would it be? VOR, NDB, rotating beacon, outer marker, approach lighting system, etc? Do you live under a crossroads in the sky? There's a VOR/DME about 1/8 mile from my house, so it gets quite busy up there. Smile

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Geoffm From United Kingdom, joined Feb 2004, 2111 posts, RR: 7
Reply 1, posted (8 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2966 times:

Mostly military airspace above me :-( although we do get buzzed by heavy props of some sort (don't know the aircraft). Nearest civilian traffic about 10 miles away to/from BRS airport.

Geoff M.

GoCOgo From United States of America, joined Jan 2005, 701 posts, RR: 2
Reply 2, posted (8 years 3 months 3 weeks 6 days 2 hours ago) and read 2921 times:

I live about 1/2 mile from a CLE navaid (I think. I'm not a pilot so I don't know how to check on such things). It's nothing more than a small white building and a radio antenna. Jets on approach to 6R and 6L fly right by my house. It's so nice to be able to spot from my backyard.

"Why you fly is your business, how you fly is ours"

LIPH From Italy, joined May 2004, 848 posts, RR: 1
Reply 3, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 15 hours ago) and read 2848 times:

Can anyone of yoyguys post some pics of any nav-aids ? Am very curious to see one...

Life sucks. Then you die. Live fast, die young.

Flymia From United States of America, joined Jun 2001, 6298 posts, RR: 6
Reply 4, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 6 hours ago) and read 2829 times:

ILS for 26L at MIA Is very close to my house. I am sure there are some way points

"It was just four of us on the flight deck, trying to do our job" (Captain Al Haynes)

57AZ From United States of America, joined Nov 2004, 2550 posts, RR: 2
Reply 5, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 5 hours ago) and read 2828 times:

No Navaids but I do have an airport in the backyard. The main runway-4500'x50' is less than five hundred feet from the guest house.

"When a man runs on railroads over half of his lifetime he is fit for nothing else-and at times he don't know that."

Scottieprecord From United States of America, joined Jul 2004, 1363 posts, RR: 12
Reply 6, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks 1 hour ago) and read 2820 times:

There's quite a bit of traffic, from Randolph AFB, flying into runway 14R. I get a good view of them from the backyard. And most the traffic from the North going to KSAT flies over our house.

- Mike

Corey07850 From United States of America, joined Feb 2004, 2519 posts, RR: 5
Reply 7, posted (8 years 3 months 2 weeks ago) and read 2809 times:

I'll take an inner marker, but with planes buzzing directly over at 200', I might not be able to sleep too much Smile

Christian From Sweden, joined Oct 1999, 348 posts, RR: 2
Reply 8, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 2798 times:

I live between Tebby VOR and the outer marker for rwy 01L/R at ARN, so I see allmost every aircraft that arrives on the left base for rwy 01L/R. I can also see in the far distance aircraft on the right base for rwy 26, when they're passing Tebby VOR.

/Christian

If your pictures aren’t good enough, you’re not close enough

BAPILOT2B From United Kingdom, joined Mar 2001, 927 posts, RR: 24
Reply 9, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 12 hours ago) and read 2789 times:

I live near the untimate jetways crossroads in the uk... Pole Hill!

Jason Nicholls - v1images

L410Turbolet From Czech Republic, joined May 2004, 5394 posts, RR: 19
Reply 10, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2782 times:

Our house is in the approach path to now defunct military airport (LKHK) and not far from a test bomb range. MiG-21s blasting at low altitude was my wake-up call on many weekends in the 1980s.
There used to be some navigation facilty couple hundred meters from our house.

Can anyone of yoyguys post some pics of any nav-aids ? Am very curious to see one...

LIPH,
click on these links:

http://www.planes.cz/foto1.asp?mode=detail&id=OCEGUWQQ&jazyk=en

http://www.planes.cz/foto1.asp?mode=detail&id=IAWBZPUO&jazyk=en

http://www.planes.cz/foto1.asp?mode=detail&id=JYHPHDUV&jazyk=en

SlamClick From United States of America, joined Nov 2003, 10062 posts, RR: 71
Reply 11, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 9 hours ago) and read 2780 times:

I can see a PAPI and REIL which are lights associated with a particular runway. An airport rotating beacon flashes green-white on the wall of my bedroom at night. I can see a VOR from the window behind me right now, but only with powerful binoculars.

I have a piece of the fresnel lens of one of the old lighted-airway beacons sitting on the shelf next to my desk.

Happiness is not seeing another trite Ste. Maarten photo all week long.

L410Turbolet From Czech Republic, joined May 2004, 5394 posts, RR: 19
Reply 12, posted (8 years 3 months 1 week 6 days 8 hours ago) and read 2777 times:

An airport rotating beacon flashes green-white on the wall of my bedroom at night.

Oh, how romantic... Wink/being sarcastic

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