Talk:Strahan Airport

Geography
no way this article has to do with geography; I'm taking the geo-stub off. Ben Tibbetts 02:18, 14 May 2006 (UTC)

With respect oh esteemed one, you are wrong. If you live in Tasmania, or have a good understanding of local knowledge in Tasmania please show! if you want a long explanation, please ask, otherwise please revert!SatuSuro 01:26, 16 May 2006 (UTC)
 * (here's a copy of the discussion on my talk page)

OOps small edit here: If you are english "good evening", north american (either variety) "G'day", or any of the other lesser english speaking locations.. "bonza day eh chaps!", and if you are indeed a non english native speaker (???) "g'day Ime a monolingual ozzie, what are ya?"

Greetings from somewhere else than strahan airport (arrgh what a bloody cold and windy place it can be too at this time of the year) - I can see your objection to the geography stub if it was in actual fact "geographical feature" in one topographical sense (in which case it should be identified as such? yes?) however if we are cartographic about it - that is looking for features that are of regional importance in transportation/economic/social sense (which my university level geography insisted was what such feature would be due to its importance to strahan and hinterland) then there is no case against it. try google earth (and what a lousy level of detail we get on the west coast unless we are 10km or above!) and it is a feature cartographically/logistically, but if you're getting your bum frozen by the salt spray from ocean beach just west - you wouldnt even know if was there and probably wouldnt care anyway? Logistically the airport can mean life or death to locals where medical facilities on the west coast are insufficient, and notability or topographical importance to a damaged timber worker or fisherman is totally irrelevent - its there, and thats what counts! SatuSuro 01:39, 30 May 2006 (UTC)

Apologies. Re-iteration. It is a vital link to the outside world for locals in emergency. It is not a topgraphical feature, as it is part of the area behind the ocean beach sand dunes and doesnt show up from a perspective of someone walking /driving around the area. It is a transport feature - which in some forms of academic geography is a vital element in the landscape, it features on maps and satellite photos, and it is one of the very few on the west coast. I think it deserves a geo stub even if its meant to be a topo feature onlySatuSuro 01:10, 31 May 2006 (UTC)

Orientation
North-south, if you read the text... :). Hey good box! SatuSuro 15:17, 30 May 2006 (UTC)
 * I did read the text and originally put 36/0 as the orientation, but looking at the satellite photo of the airport on Google Maps and Google Earth, the orientation appears to be generally N-S oriented, but about 15 degrees off. --Canley 08:48, 31 May 2006 (UTC)
 * Apologies - the times that I was in the planes there, I did have the opportunity to look at their instruments, but didnt keep a record, thanks for the correction.

I think there might be data somewhere on the net about the correct bearing, but have mislaid the bookmarks. SatuSuro 11:38, 31 May 2006 (UTC)