gyro crashes

Jonathan, I feel your pain. I've seen plenty of fields the same way. They would make perfect airstrips if not for the power lines going across them.
 
...they are "no longer going cross country" running wire. Translated they are no longer going through the swamp to run cable. Still does not make sense where and why.

It makes perfect sense if you've ever tried to negotiate easements for right-of-way with private landowners, or had to go off-roading in a service truck.
 
Wires are hard to see.

Wires are hard to see.

In the fields around the Santa Maria Valley they do crop dusting a lot.

They also have raised wires going out to the irrigation pumps in the middle of the fields so the crop dusters have to dodge the wires. They are not always successful.

It must cost a lot to put the wires underground because they don’t and the crop dusters continue to dodge them.

That is part of why I don’t fly much at night, even with a bright moon the wires in the fields are very hard to see if I need to come down quickly.

If I fly at night locally I fly high enough to make it to somewhere I know there aren’t wires like the beach.

Even during the day it is hard to see wires where I don’t expect them.

Around here they stretch wires high across the canyons from ridgeline to ridgeline and it makes them much higher above the ground then I expect.

I have never thought of it as a conspiracy against aviation.

Thank you, Vance
 
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