GA friendly airports near ELP & AUS

[ROBIN FLY]

I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R
during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day,
so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight.
Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel
& lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I
have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly
airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.

[Dude]

Not familiar with ELP, but Trajen at AUS is fairly GA friendly.

You might want to try T82 and stay at the Hangar hotel. It is an aviation
theme hotel, right on the field, taxi to the hotel in your plane. Also,
Fredericksburg is a nice place to visit while you are there. If you are
hard IMC, then just head for either SAT or AUS. SAT has a few FBO's for GA.

Just was at NEW. Nice folks, and even the millionaire FBO was reasonable
and friendly (not that they were unfriendly elsewhere, but you kinda felt
outclassed having only 4 seats). Taxi's are generally waiting for you
there.

Have fun!




"ROBIN FLY" > wrote in message
...
>I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed
>R&R
> during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a
> day,
> so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS
> overnight.
> Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for
> fuel
> & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that
> I
> have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA
> friendly
> airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.

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I usually stop at West Texas airport. It's a little east of the big
airport in El Paso.
Nice old guy who runs it and the fuel prices are pretty good.
They also have autofuel if you desire it.
Not much for resturants or hotels, just a nice place for a quick stop
and fuel.

Dave

Dude wrote:
> Not familiar with ELP, but Trajen at AUS is fairly GA friendly.
>
> You might want to try T82 and stay at the Hangar hotel. It is an aviation
> theme hotel, right on the field, taxi to the hotel in your plane. Also,
> Fredericksburg is a nice place to visit while you are there. If you are
> hard IMC, then just head for either SAT or AUS. SAT has a few FBO's for GA.
>
> Just was at NEW. Nice folks, and even the millionaire FBO was reasonable
> and friendly (not that they were unfriendly elsewhere, but you kinda felt
> outclassed having only 4 seats). Taxi's are generally waiting for you
> there.
>
> Have fun!
>
>
>
>
> "ROBIN FLY" > wrote in message
> ...
>
>>I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed
>>R&R
>>during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a
>>day,
>>so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS
>>overnight.
>>Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for
>>fuel
>>& lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that
>>I
>>have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA
>>friendly
>>airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.
>
>
>

[Fox Hound]

> I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much
needed R&R
> during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a
day,
> so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS
overnight.
> Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for
fuel
> & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that
I
> have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA
friendly
> airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.

Go to Georgetown to the north or San Marcos to the south instead of KAUS.

[Michael]

wrote
> I usually stop at West Texas airport. It's a little east of the big
> airport in El Paso.
> Nice old guy who runs it and the fuel prices are pretty good.
> They also have autofuel if you desire it.

Also a WWII bomber converted into a museum.

> Not much for resturants or hotels, just a nice place for a quick stop
> and fuel.

Actually, I've overnighted there. VERY cheap rental cars and the
motels are close by. Recommend it as a stop.

AUS I don't recommended. Very expensive and not particularly
convenient. Just a bit north is Georgetown (GTU) with approaches, a
choice of long runways, courtesy transportation, and lots of hotels
and restaurants just 15 minutes drive South in Round Rock.

Michael

[Dan Thompson]

I always stop in Las Cruces, NM on the Socal to Texas route, which is pretty
close to ELP. One of the FBO's has a restaurant, Adventure Aviation, I
think it is called.
"ROBIN FLY" > wrote in message
...
>I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed
>R&R
> during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a
> day,
> so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS
> overnight.
> Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for
> fuel
> & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that
> I
> have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA
> friendly
> airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.

[Scott D.]

On 23 Nov 2004 01:31:30 GMT, (ROBIN FLY) wrote:

>I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R
>during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day,
>so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight.
>Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel
>& lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I
>have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly
>airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks.

If you havnt flown into ELP, watch out and make sure that you are not
lined up on the wrong airport out there. There is an AFB that sits
real close to the airport and the runways are exactly the same, I hear
people lining up wrong all the time. As for something around AUS,
there is GTU but if it is a clear day, there is so many planes out
there, you almost have to draw lottery tickets just to get in. It can
get really busy there. There is T74 (taylor) that is nice but small
and GYB (Giddings) that are GA friendly but if you can stand to go
just a little bit further there is CLL (College Station) it is a Class
D airport with very friendly controlers plus like someone else said,
if it is IFR, they have all the types of approaches you need to get
in. Also there are numberous places to stay and eat with Texas A&M
Univeristy and the Bush Library there.

Hope this helps

Scott D

[John Galban]

Scott D. <> wrote in message >...
>
> If you havnt flown into ELP, watch out and make sure that you are not
> lined up on the wrong airport out there. There is an AFB that sits
> real close to the airport and the runways are exactly the same, I hear
> people lining up wrong all the time.
<snip>

It's Biggs Army Airfield (KBIF) at Fort Bliss. Their runway 3/21 is
about 2 miles north of ELP's runway 4/22. Before the days when
everyone had a GPS on their yoke, it was fairly common for KBIF to
greet an unscheduled civilian arrival.

John Galban=====>N4BQ (PA28-180)

[James M. Knox]

(John Galban) wrote in
om:

> It's Biggs Army Airfield (KBIF) at Fort Bliss. Their runway 3/21 is
> about 2 miles north of ELP's runway 4/22. Before the days when
> everyone had a GPS on their yoke, it was fairly common for KBIF to
> greet an unscheduled civilian arrival.

Heck, even Southwest Airlines landed there once by mistake, back during the
PATCO strike, when the airlines in the south were aloud to fly VFR.

jmk