How long a runway needs to be for a microlights by UK law?
Posted by Kinky_Ladybug@reddit | flying | View on Reddit | 10 comments
Hello, I'm studying architecture in the uk. and I'm currently working on a project to design a building 50 years into the future. we also have to show what the world is going to look like 50 years into the future.
In my theoretical world 50 years from now, the air pollution was so bad that a thick smog (like The Great Smog of London in 1952) settled over most cities in the UK which forced the Prime Minister to authorise
a drastic plan: dispersing seeds and spores enhanced with a growth agent using chemtrails from planes. (I don't believe in chemtrail conspiracy theory, just having fun) so trees and vines sprout from roads fields and train tracts overnight and cut people's main mode of transport and forcing them to only be able to travel by foot.
so I wanted to use Microlights to be able to make small journeys around Canterbury to transport daily small parcels of food around the dense city, of Canterbury.
I don't want to use helicopters for this as they are expensive in terms of fuel, training, and up-keep.
So does anyone know how long a runway needs to be for a microlights by UK law?
justanotherhandlefor@reddit
Under 300m is often considered short. It's not the takeoff, it's the landing. Even that many metres looks tiny when you're approaching it.
BandicootNo4431@reddit
Psssh if the Navy guys can land on a 100m moving runway I can land on a 300m stationary runway
thrfscowaway8610@reddit
When I was training in an MS-880B, our shortest grass runway was 250m. That was quite enough to handle two people and half tanks.
thrfscowaway8610@reddit
Could you not simply claim -- since so much of this is speculative anyway -- that by 2074 microlights will be capable of much better take-off performance than they are now?
Alternatively, why not use powered parachutes as your delivery system? They can takeoff and land, especially given a bit of headwind, practically vertically.
Independent-Reveal86@reddit
This manufacturer lists 310m as the minimum runway length for one of their microlights. Note that the take off distance itself is much shorter at 240m and if you look elsewhere on their website you find take-off rolls in the region of 100m. I think it would be realistic to provide a 200m platform for landing and taking off. You would need to be able to land and take-off into wind so one big area on the rooftop would be ideal.
https://www.airborne.com.au/pages/ml_outback_specs.php
Kinky_Ladybug@reddit (OP)
thank you so much this is exactly what I was looking for. I might have to change what aircraft I use since I don't have 2 1/2 football fields of space for a runway :(
N4bq@reddit
Google Autogyro.
Independent-Reveal86@reddit
What about drones? They have the capability of a helicopter without the cost and feels more futuristic.
ComprehensiveEar7218@reddit
There's no such thing as a law dictating runway length for microlights.
rFlyingTower@reddit
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Hello, I'm studying architecture in the uk. and I'm currently working on a project to design a building 50 years into the future. we also have to show what the world is going to look like 50 years into the future.
In my theoretical world 50 years from now, the air pollution was so bad that a thick smog (like The Great Smog of London in 1952) settled over most cities in the UK which forced the Prime Minister to authorise
a drastic plan: dispersing seeds and spores enhanced with a growth agent using chemtrails from planes. (I don't believe in chemtrail conspiracy theory, just having fun) so trees and vines sprout from roads fields and train tracts overnight and cut people's main mode of transport and forcing them to only be able to travel by foot.
so I wanted to use Microlights to be able to make small journeys around Canterbury to transport daily small parcels of food around the dense city, of Canterbury.
I don't want to use helicopters for this as they are expensive in terms of fuel, training, and up-keep.
So does anyone know how long a runway needs to be for a microlights by UK law?
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