[NSRCA-discussion] Question for a friend for the experts

[Bill's Email]

Excuse my dyslexic typo, an acre is 43,560 square feet

Bill's Email wrote:
> mike mueller wrote:
>>  A friend of mine Russ Rhodes asked me this question.
>>  Since I'm stuck in a metro area with 8 million people the last thing 
>> I know about is acreage. I can't think of a better place to get an 
>> answer than you guys so here it goes.
>>
>>  Mike, I know that you’ve been in the pattern flying for some time.  
>> I am trying to buy some property and found a 30 acre plot that was a 
>> square 40 acre with 10 acres removed.  I put a triangle to it and I 
>> would still overfly as the “box” doesn’t fit in the acreage, 1350’ x 
>> 1000’.  Do you have a recommended acreage size for a field?  Just 
>> curious.
>>
>> Russ
>>
>>  Thanks in advance, Mike Mueller
>>   
>
>
> There are 43,460 square feet in an acre. The above box is 1,350,000 
> square feet, or 31 acres.
>
> The original square 40 acre parcel would have been 1,320 feet on each 
> side.
>
> Field configuration depends a lot on where that 10 acres was removed 
> from the original 40 acres.
>
>
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