On Apr 22, 2009, at 11:16 PM, Jinx wrote:

>> There are no spots in the SF Bay Area that are "many miles" from  
>> typical flight plans :-(
>
> I can well imagine. Don't recall where they wanted to do it or where  
> they
> did but ISTR it wasn't at M5

I believe that the MythBuster folk do most of their "big" things at  
the old Alameda Naval base airfield (which is being let go fallow,  
more or less.)  That puts it less than 10 miles from Oakland  
International airport, and about 20 from SFO.  Plus at least two  
municipal airports within 30 miles (hayward, San Carlos)

The Oakland and SF runways point pretty much straight at it.  I  
vaguely recall from aviation class that that means the traffic  
patterns DON'T aim at it (which would make sense when there was  
another airfield there), but that's for controlled craft.  For an  
uncontrolled "hazard", in an area subject to high winds, I am not  
surprised that they had trouble getting clearance!

BillW

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