[talk-au] farm airstrips

Mon Apr 29 11:21:11 UTC 2024

Actually – maybe it did!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PcmFQUWZuM

I will add the strip!

From: Phil Wyatt via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org> 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 8:38 PM
To: 'Ewen Hill' <ewen.hill at gmail.com>
Cc: talk-au at openstreetmap.org
Subject: Re: [talk-au] farm airstrips

The Grand Design House is not in that location – its here. As Ewen indicated it didn’t actually go ahead as a runway.

https://www.openstreetmap.org/edit#map=18/-38.40343/145.31695

From: Ewen Hill <ewen.hill at gmail.com <mailto:ewen.hill at gmail.com> > 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 7:46 PM
To: Phil Wyatt <phil at wyatt-family.com <mailto:phil at wyatt-family.com> >
Cc: Andrew Welch <mail at andrewwelch.net <mailto:mail at andrewwelch.net> >; talk-au at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-au at openstreetmap.org> 
Subject: Re: [talk-au] farm airstrips

Hi all,

  There was a proposal of an air bnb and hangar and is next to a house on Grand Designs TV Show however the runway was never really specced for the type of aircraft that would want to use the runway. So it really is for very small or ultralights only on a 540m and 47m wide with prevailing winds, uneven surface, marine birdlife and ~3% gradient. Warin, any air evacs of the 100 are via HEMS helicopter or boat. Tyabb airport is just north of the Island and so there is probably not a lot of interest in an airfield for the 100 or so residents. I don't know if this proposal got up or as Andrew stated, it had stalled post incident or property sale.

Finally, there is a barge service that runs from Corinella to nearby properties with a pier so I would personally take the extra hour and arrive safely without meeting a bin chicken or other wildlife close up at the wrong time.

I'm inclined to bin chicken it

Ewen

On Mon, 29 Apr 2024 at 18:51, Phil Wyatt via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-au at openstreetmap.org> > wrote:

May have been an eager mapper after this incident but certainly no sign of a formal or informal strip there

https://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/plane-flips-after-landing-gear-malfunctions-on-victorias-french-island/video/f61a249832fb86f3fad6be0aa92c3ce6

From: Andrew Welch via Talk-au <talk-au at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-au at openstreetmap.org> > 
Sent: Monday, April 29, 2024 6:32 PM
To: talk-au at openstreetmap.org <mailto:talk-au at openstreetmap.org> 
Subject: Re: [talk-au] farm airstrips

Considering there's also a "hanger" there that doesn't seem to be visible on any aerial imagery I just checked, I'm in favour of deleting it. It just doesn't seem to actually exist, and I question where the name came from.

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Thanks,
Andrew Welch
mail at andrewwelch.net <mailto:mail at andrewwelch.net> 

On 29/04/2024 5:34 pm, Frederik Ramm wrote:

Hi,

the DWG was contacted by the owner of some farmland about an aerodrome=airport that was mapped on their property and which they would like to have removed since it was not a published airstrip and while they occasionally used it for take-offs and landings they don't want ir promoted.

My standard response in cases like this would be "I can mark it access=private but if something is clearly there, I cannot remove it."

I have checked with aerial imagery though and there is absolutely nothing on the aerial imagery that would set this "airstrip" apart from the neighbouring grassland. Yes it looks like I could land a plane there, but I could also land a plane the next field over, or a little bit further east or west - it all looks the same. I assume that there might be a clue locally like a windsock or so, but other than that, nothing.

I'd therefore be tempted to delete the airstrip from OSM. Opinions about that? Here's the area:

https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/-38.3681/145.3901

Bye
Frederik

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Warm Regards

Ewen Hill

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