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when the least experienced participant projects their limitations on everyone else.
I've got plenty of UL time on short fields and grass since those aircraft really don't have much business operating out of anything else. I just don't keep track of it in terms of a logbook because it's not in "real" airplanes (meaning no one counts UL time in calculating total time).
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In fact, at my 1950' long airport several C-172's of various vintages seem to be able to land with runway to spare.
I can land in 1950 feet and have plenty of room to spare. I just choose not to. I fly like I'm landing at a short strip when I'm flying those sorts of planes but I don't feel the need to prove anything to myself or anyone else by actually doing it. To each and to their own, but if I can support the local FBOs by using their runway and give myself a little broader margin of error, I'm going to do so.
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Flight schools that rent to every pilot in town often have rules that attempt to keep the less experienced pilots from going places that might exceed their abilities. They blame those rules on the insurance company, but they usually request those rules themselves.
...and I can see why given how little experience most of us get on grass. Then again, I guess I lack the nostalgia or whatever it is that leads people to the love of grass strips. When you have plenty of 3,000+ hard surface runways around and zero trouble getting clearance to land on the 12,000+ foot runway nearby, why would you need to go looking for a grass strip that is likely a lot rougher than the well maintained (by someone else) hard surface runway and isn't going to be usable after rain (Hello Sloshkosh!), in the winter or in anything but severe clear VMC?
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Steve hits on a key point, though. When one owns a grass strip there is a whole list of things to check and maintain.
Reason #1 why I don't have a private grass strip: I don't like mowing. LOL