How I celebrated the Anniversary

[jon]

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

[Tom Fleischman]

Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...

In article >, jon
> wrote:

> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.
>
> A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
> motivated to do it.
> Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
> celebrate the anniversary.
> I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
> bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.
>
> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
> a round robin flight.
>
> Islip
> Farmingdale
> Kennedy Intl
> La Guardia
> Mattituck
> Fishers Island
> Montauk
> East Hampton
> West Hampton ( Gabreski )
> Spadaro ( east moriches )
> Brookhaven
> Islip
>
> It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
> and people of
> aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
>
> Jon G.
>
>
>
>

[jon]

Believe it or not..

A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.


"Tom Fleischman" > wrote in message
rthlink.net...
> Fisher's Island is on Long Island???
>
> News to me...
>
> Not that it's not a nice place to land...
>
> In article >, jon
> > wrote:
>
> > I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> > anniversary.
> >
> > A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
> > motivated to do it.
> > Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned
to
> > celebrate the anniversary.
> > I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking
very
> > bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.
> >
> > Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
> > a round robin flight.
> >
> > Islip
> > Farmingdale
> > Kennedy Intl
> > La Guardia
> > Mattituck
> > Fishers Island
> > Montauk
> > East Hampton
> > West Hampton ( Gabreski )
> > Spadaro ( east moriches )
> > Brookhaven
> > Islip
> >
> > It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the
aviators
> > and people of
> > aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
> >
> > Jon G.
> >
> >
> >
> >

[Tom Fleischman]

In article >, jon
> wrote:

> Believe it or not..
>
> A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
> the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.
>
>
> "Tom Fleischman" > wrote in message
> rthlink.net...
> > Fisher's Island is on Long Island???
> >
> > News to me...
> >
> > Not that it's not a nice place to land...
> >
>

Well, it may be in New York State, and it may be a part of Suffolk
County, but it is definately NOT on Long Island!

A lovely destination though, and I'll bet that was a GREAT flight -:)

[Peter R.]

jon ) wrote:

> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
> New York in a round robin flight.
<snip>

Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email indicates?

VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?

I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.



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Peter












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[TD]

Lucky you. I have freezing rain here in Montreal, Qc. There goes my plan.

TD

"jon" > wrote in message >...
> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.
>
> A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
> motivated to do it.
> Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
> celebrate the anniversary.
> I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
> bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.
>
> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
> a round robin flight.
>
> Islip
> Farmingdale
> Kennedy Intl
> La Guardia
> Mattituck
> Fishers Island
> Montauk
> East Hampton
> West Hampton ( Gabreski )
> Spadaro ( east moriches )
> Brookhaven
> Islip
>
> It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
> and people of
> aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
>
> Jon G.

[Jay Honeck]

> > Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
> > a round robin flight.

It's been a great anniversary! First, we were on the front page of one of
the local newspapers, interviewed for the "100th Anniversary of Flight"
story! See it at http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/577739.html .

Then, inspired by Jon's grand adventure (and the un-forecasted,
crystal-clear weather) Mary and I set out to hit TWELVE airports before the
kids got out of school today.

Well, we really only hit 11 separate airports, but since we split the PIC
duties at Dubuque, she and I both got to count Iowa City and Dubuque -- so
it actually worked out to 13. (I should work for the Congressional
Accounting Office, no? :-)

They were:

Iowa City (KIOW)
Tipton (8C4)
Davenport (DVN)
Clinton (CWI)
Maquoketa (OQW)
Dubuque (DBQ) Where we had GREAT barbecued pork sandwiches at the on-field
restaurant for lunch!
Monticello (MXO)
Manchester (C27)
Independence (IIB)
Vinton (VTI)
Cedar Rapids (CID)
Iowa City

It was a wonderful way to celebrate, and we made sure to wish all the
various controllers along our route of flight a "Happy Anniversary!"
Without exception, they all responded pleasantly, and soon everyone on the
freq was doing it! :-)

Happy 100th, everyone!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[SeeAndAvoid]

For those familiar with Geocaching ( www.geocaching.com ) , I released a
"Centennial of Flight" Travel Bug today, a 1/100th scale diecast model of
the Wright Flyer, from the Centennial State. It's goal is to land at all 50
states, especially Kitty Hawk, NC.

For the unfamiliar, a geocache is usually a container of some sort, hidden,
but the lat/long coordinates and/or clues are given on how to find it.
Travel Bugs are things you put in the caches with specific goals in mind -
they travel from cache to cache. Some have gone around the world,
repeatedly. The bug itself is a dog tag. You attach it to an item, in this
case a small airplane.

I planned on going flying, and still could. The weather is clear, the winds
are fierce, but I'm a little under the weather myself, as are the kids.

Happy Centennial, Chris

[jon]

Congats to you both. Today's weather in New York was a real wash out so I am
glad I went yesterday. I was trying to make it 12 airports but was
officially denied permission to land at Calverton the old Grumman navel
field on long island. It is now a town owned private airport and only allow
air traffic if it is for business purposes unfortunately I told the real
reason for the landing and it was denied. What can you do..


"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:1G3Eb.572453$HS4.4306717@attbi_s01...
> > > Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
> York in
> > > a round robin flight.
>
> It's been a great anniversary! First, we were on the front page of one of
> the local newspapers, interviewed for the "100th Anniversary of Flight"
> story! See it at http://www.dailyiowan.com/news/577739.html .
>
> Then, inspired by Jon's grand adventure (and the un-forecasted,
> crystal-clear weather) Mary and I set out to hit TWELVE airports before
the
> kids got out of school today.
>
> Well, we really only hit 11 separate airports, but since we split the PIC
> duties at Dubuque, she and I both got to count Iowa City and Dubuque -- so
> it actually worked out to 13. (I should work for the Congressional
> Accounting Office, no? :-)
>
> They were:
>
> Iowa City (KIOW)
> Tipton (8C4)
> Davenport (DVN)
> Clinton (CWI)
> Maquoketa (OQW)
> Dubuque (DBQ) Where we had GREAT barbecued pork sandwiches at the
on-field
> restaurant for lunch!
> Monticello (MXO)
> Manchester (C27)
> Independence (IIB)
> Vinton (VTI)
> Cedar Rapids (CID)
> Iowa City
>
> It was a wonderful way to celebrate, and we made sure to wish all the
> various controllers along our route of flight a "Happy Anniversary!"
> Without exception, they all responded pleasantly, and soon everyone on the
> freq was doing it! :-)
>
> Happy 100th, everyone!
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>
>

[jon]

Thanks Peter it was very cool to go into those 2 airports.

Vfr to both..
At Kennedy I originally asked to land taxi back and depart I figured they
would bill me for the landing fee $25.
But they needed me to land and go to the GA terminal and pay there. It
actually added to the experience.

Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
have no problem.

Jon

"Peter R." > wrote in message
...
> jon ) wrote:
>
> > Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
> > New York in a round robin flight.
> <snip>
>
> Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email
indicates?
>
> VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?
>
> I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.
>
>
>
> --
> Peter
>
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[Jay Honeck]

> field on long island. It is now a town owned private airport and only
allow
> air traffic if it is for business purposes unfortunately I told the real
> reason for the landing and it was denied. What can you do..

How does that work? How do they know it's for business?

And how do they "deny" permission to land? What class airspace is it?

Sounds like a royal PI the A.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[jon]

It used to be a military airport were Grumman built and tested the F-14's.
When the Navy left they turned it over to the town of Riverhead. You now
must have prior permission to land there. What you have to do is to fax the
town supervisor and tell him when and why you want to go there he will fax
you back permission. A typical reason that gets approved its to go visit a
business on the field. There are no aviation business except a skydiving
firm. If I had BSed my reason it probably would have been approved. The
supervisor was voted out of office and departing Jan 1st so he seemed to
have an attitude.

http://www.grummanpark.org/

Take care.

Jon

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:WC4Eb.577988$Tr4.1552452@attbi_s03...
> > field on long island. It is now a town owned private airport and only
> allow
> > air traffic if it is for business purposes unfortunately I told the real
> > reason for the landing and it was denied. What can you do..
>
> How does that work? How do they know it's for business?
>
> And how do they "deny" permission to land? What class airspace is it?
>
> Sounds like a royal PI the A.
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>
>

[David Brooks]

We have been *so* fortunate here, in Seattle of all places:
30005KT 10SM FEW160 SCT250 BKN330 11/05

The Parade of Planes went ahead with very few problems. 120 local pilots
signed up (there were a few no-shows). There were 6 speed groups plus a
formation team flying a circle up to Everett and down to McChord south of
Tacoma. Flight A lead reached the dispersal point, abeam BFI, just as the
sweep for flight F reported off the ground.

We started at the Museum of Flight at 9 for briefings, and left for the
airplane around 11:10 (we had to miss the Flyer's attempt on the big
screen). We got out of the plane about 1:30. In between was lots of meeting
other pilots and their craft, from big warbirds to a pair of Long-Ezes. I
was a passenger in the back of a friend's 206 - we have the same instructor,
who was in the left seat. We were following a Texan and an Archer, with
another 8 behind us in the group. As far as I could hear, only one craft had
to leave the parade, a biplane suffering some roughness.

Enormous kudos to the team from MOF for pulling it together at fairly short
notice, and to the guys at Boeing Tower. We even got a stirring send-off
from the FSDO guy (who introduced himself as representing the Federal
Anti-Aviation Administration).

I think I'll make sure I'm in the front seat in December 2103.

-- David Brooks

[Jay Honeck]

> http://www.grummanpark.org/

Wow. How can such a cool, historic airport have such a crappy attitude?

You guys need to get AOPA involved.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Rob Perkins]

On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:01 -0500, "jon" >
wrote:

>Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
>numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
>If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
>have no problem.

That seems steep. Aren't there times of the day when it's much cheaper
to land at LGA?

Rob

[Dave]

Reading this

http://www.billzilla.org/pearce.htm

[jon]

I had thought it was going to be $150 so I was somewhat happy. I think I
read that after 9:00 pm it was cheaper.
This was only a landing fee, Signature didn't charge me any handling or ramp
fees.
Jon

"Rob Perkins" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:01 -0500, "jon" >
> wrote:
>
> >Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
> >numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
> >If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
> >have no problem.
>
> That seems steep. Aren't there times of the day when it's much cheaper
> to land at LGA?
>
> Rob

[jon]

Wow this sounds great .. Any pictures ?


"David Brooks" > wrote in message
...
> We have been *so* fortunate here, in Seattle of all places:
> 30005KT 10SM FEW160 SCT250 BKN330 11/05
>
> The Parade of Planes went ahead with very few problems. 120 local pilots
> signed up (there were a few no-shows). There were 6 speed groups plus a
> formation team flying a circle up to Everett and down to McChord south of
> Tacoma. Flight A lead reached the dispersal point, abeam BFI, just as the
> sweep for flight F reported off the ground.
>
> We started at the Museum of Flight at 9 for briefings, and left for the
> airplane around 11:10 (we had to miss the Flyer's attempt on the big
> screen). We got out of the plane about 1:30. In between was lots of
meeting
> other pilots and their craft, from big warbirds to a pair of Long-Ezes. I
> was a passenger in the back of a friend's 206 - we have the same
instructor,
> who was in the left seat. We were following a Texan and an Archer, with
> another 8 behind us in the group. As far as I could hear, only one craft
had
> to leave the parade, a biplane suffering some roughness.
>
> Enormous kudos to the team from MOF for pulling it together at fairly
short
> notice, and to the guys at Boeing Tower. We even got a stirring send-off
> from the FSDO guy (who introduced himself as representing the Federal
> Anti-Aviation Administration).
>
> I think I'll make sure I'm in the front seat in December 2103.
>
> -- David Brooks
>
>

[Montblack]

("Dave" wrote)
> Reading this
>
> http://www.billzilla.org/pearce.htm


I'd like to believe, but......

Where's the photos? By 1903, good cameras had been around for over 40 years.

Between 1903 and (maybe) 1907, the Wright Brothers were it. If some guy from
New Zealand could do it (even 3 years after the Wright's "First Flight") it
would have been reported.

Sorry.

--
Montblack
http://lumma.de/mt/archives/bart.gif

[Peter Duniho]

"jon" > wrote in message
...
>
> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary. [...]

Nice. I missed flying today, but I got a one-day reprieve on some pressing
matters, and I'm hoping to sneak out tomorrow. It will no longer be the
17th anywhere in the world, but better late than never, right? :)

We did luck out today and have some great flying weather (which made it all
the harder to keep working rather than heading to the airport). I did
happen to catch several large flights of airplanes doing a parade. I don't
know where they started (though I suspect the well-formed flights of RVs
probably came from Arlington, north of here, where all the homebuilts hang
out) but it was a lot of fun, and I saw probably 50 airplanes go by in the
span of about 30 minutes, in a half-dozen different groups.

I'm a little ticked that no one invited me to participate in the parade, but
that's probably because I don't spend enough time hanging out with other
pilots in real life. Gotta do something about that...

Pete

[Ludlow Johnson]

Being a non-pilot, but a certified avaition enthusiast, most of my
activites were unfortunately restricted to ground menuvers.

Went out to one of the local airports (EYQ) here in houston to watch
them fly and snap a couple of pics of T & G's.

Also watched a whole lot of Discovery Wngs programs between honey
do's. Caught several of the the History and Discovery channel aviation
related programs. Then just finished watching the Spirit of Saint
Louis.

Tomorrow hopefully will get out to the Big Airport (IAH) for a little
plane sportting and then finish up at my local hangout (DWH).

All in all it's been quite a celabration.

Seasons greeting to one and all and please remember to fly
safe...........


On 17 Dec 2003 11:19:26 -0800, (TD) wrote:

>Lucky you. I have freezing rain here in Montreal, Qc. There goes my plan.
>
>TD
>
>"jon" > wrote in message >...
>> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
>> anniversary.
>>
>> A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
>> motivated to do it.
>> Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
>> celebrate the anniversary.
>> I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
>> bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.
>>
>> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
>> a round robin flight.
>>
>> Islip
>> Farmingdale
>> Kennedy Intl
>> La Guardia
>> Mattituck
>> Fishers Island
>> Montauk
>> East Hampton
>> West Hampton ( Gabreski )
>> Spadaro ( east moriches )
>> Brookhaven
>> Islip
>>
>> It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
>> and people of
>> aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
>>
>> Jon G.

[tony roberts]

> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.

I flew in a formation flight around the Okanagan Valley. It was filmed
by 7 TV cameras - now I'm waiting for the news to see how it looked.
I do know that it wasn't too pretty - most of the guys hadn't flown
formation before. For safety it was VERY loose - now I'll get the
chance to see how it looked from the ground.
--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Almost Instrument :)
Cessna 172H C-GICE

[Steve DeMoss]

Sounds like a very cool way to commemorate the Wrights' achievement. I
couldn't get out to the airport until late this afternoon due to business
obligations, but managed to drag the 150 out and catch the sunset from
aloft. There were several pilots on the CTAF returning to home base at the
time, and one called out "Thanks, Orville. Thanks, Wilbur." I had to agree.
Beautiful sunset, smooth air, good visibility. If only I hadn't had to
return so quickly . . .

I might add that I felt somewhat compelled to fly today, since I recently
found out that Orville and I share a birthday (August 19th).

Steve DeMoss
N16071

"jon" > wrote in message
...
>
(snip)
> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York
in
> a round robin flight.
>
> Islip
> Farmingdale
> Kennedy Intl
> La Guardia
> Mattituck
> Fishers Island
> Montauk
> East Hampton
> West Hampton ( Gabreski )
> Spadaro ( east moriches )
> Brookhaven
> Islip
>
> It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the
aviators
> and people of
> aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
>
> Jon G.
>
>
>
>

[jcc]

"jon" > wrote in message
...
>
> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.
>
[snip]

Great flight Jon!

This evening my daughter and I took a short "Centennial Anniversary and
Christmas Light Viewing Flight" around the Temple area.

I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation titled
"Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".

Cheers!
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

[Brian Burger]

I went for a short local flight this morning to celebrate the 100th.

0.8, local south around the city, at 800 most of the time because of
clouds at ~1100-1200... Murphy's law dictated that within an hour of
landing there wasn't a cloud in the sky!

It was my brother's girlfriend's first ever time in a small plane; she had
a great time and has gone from being afraid of dying in a small plane to
talking about longer trips.

The Flying Club had a sticker & seal for pilot's logbooks; there'll be
nice 100 year certificates made up for everyone, pilots & passengers both.

Anyway, Happy 100th, everyone. Too bad the replica didn't get off the
ground at Kitty Hawk, but it sounds like some other people had nice
personal flights today!

Brian - PP-ASEL/Night -

--

[David Brooks]

http://groups.msn.com/davidbrooks/paradeofplanes.msnw.

Enjoy. My aging camera has a distinctly blue cast - haven't had time to
retint the pictures yet.

-- David Brooks

"jon" > wrote in message
...
> Wow this sounds great .. Any pictures ?
>
>
> "David Brooks" > wrote in message
> ...
> > We have been *so* fortunate here, in Seattle of all places:
> > 30005KT 10SM FEW160 SCT250 BKN330 11/05
> >
> > The Parade of Planes went ahead with very few problems. 120 local pilots
> > signed up (there were a few no-shows). There were 6 speed groups plus a
> > formation team flying a circle up to Everett and down to McChord south
of
> > Tacoma. Flight A lead reached the dispersal point, abeam BFI, just as
the
> > sweep for flight F reported off the ground.
> >
> > We started at the Museum of Flight at 9 for briefings, and left for the
> > airplane around 11:10 (we had to miss the Flyer's attempt on the big
> > screen). We got out of the plane about 1:30. In between was lots of
> meeting
> > other pilots and their craft, from big warbirds to a pair of Long-Ezes.
I
> > was a passenger in the back of a friend's 206 - we have the same
> instructor,
> > who was in the left seat. We were following a Texan and an Archer, with
> > another 8 behind us in the group. As far as I could hear, only one craft
> had
> > to leave the parade, a biplane suffering some roughness.
> >
> > Enormous kudos to the team from MOF for pulling it together at fairly
> short
> > notice, and to the guys at Boeing Tower. We even got a stirring send-off
> > from the FSDO guy (who introduced himself as representing the Federal
> > Anti-Aviation Administration).
> >
> > I think I'll make sure I'm in the front seat in December 2103.
> >
> > -- David Brooks
> >
> >
>
>

[Frederick Wilson]

Great idea for a flight Jon.

Like I commented in another post. We got the ole Huey out. The weather was
kind of iffy but we got out of the airport. By time we got to the PZ (Pickup
Zone) it was great weather for us. We flew more than 4 hours, turned 8
trips, and 100 PAXs. I think all in all it was a great day.

Fred


"jon" > wrote in message
...
>
> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.
>
> A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
> motivated to do it.
> Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
> celebrate the anniversary.
> I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
> bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.
>
> Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York
in
> a round robin flight.
>
> Islip
> Farmingdale
> Kennedy Intl
> La Guardia
> Mattituck
> Fishers Island
> Montauk
> East Hampton
> West Hampton ( Gabreski )
> Spadaro ( east moriches )
> Brookhaven
> Islip
>
> It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the
aviators
> and people of
> aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!
>
> Jon G.
>
>
>
>

[Jay Masino]

Jay Honeck > wrote:
>> http://www.grummanpark.org/
> Wow. How can such a cool, historic airport have such a crappy attitude?
> You guys need to get AOPA involved.

In the late eighties, when I was working for Litton/Amecom on an upgrade
to the EA-6B Prowler, I got to go up to that facility on several
occasions and walk through HUGE hangars full of F-14Ds. It was pretty
cool. And... a few years later, I bought my plane nearby at Gabriski
field. It's a shame Calverton is closed.

-- Jay
__!__
Jay and Teresa Masino ___(_)___
http://www2.ari.net/jmasino/ ! ! !

Checkout http://www.oc-adolfos.com/
for the best Italian food in Ocean City, MD and...
Checkout http://www.brolow.com/ for authentic Blues music on Delmarva

[Jay Honeck]

> I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
> posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
titled
> "Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".

Sadly, it's not appearing on my server's version of "The Binary Channel".

Can you tell us a bit more about this software? I'd like to be able to
download (and save) my flight track from yesterday, since I doubt I'll ever
do 12 airports in 2.5 hours again!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"jcc" > wrote in message
.. .

[JP Krievins]

in recognition of the centennial of flight, my wife has been teaching
her middle school level science classes this fall about the Wright
Brothers and aviation. She teaches at a special purpose school, a
residential facility for youth with various problems that keep them
out of the normal public schools. For yesterday, she organized a field
trip for her kids to our local airport, which has a flight training
program run by a local college.

I spent the morning helping out with running the kids through the
activities there. The kids were divided in groups of about five or
six, taking turns touring the facility, sitting in airplanes, flying
the simulator, answering Wright Bros trivia questions to "win"
T-shirts, and flying the paper airplanes they had built inside the
hangar. Lot's of smiles and "big" eyes from kids that don't have a lot
to look forward to, particularly in the holiday season.

We ended the morning's activities by launching a rubber band powered
Wright Flyer model in the hangar. It flew for about 3-4 seconds and 60
feet, which wasn't too bad (and was better than the full size replica
did).

I had brought our Cherokee over to the college hangar, and the kids
were surprised to learn that their teacher had a "real" airplane. I
think she was a little embarassed to have admit that she didn't fly
it. Maybe all this aviation stuff she's been teaching will get her
thinking about moving over to the left seat?

A little prequel to this story. I drove over to the college hangar
earlier that morning to unload and set up some of the equipment for
the field trip. The only person there was a young student pilot
pulling planes out of the hangar, as the sun was coming up in the
east. I offered her a hand and soon we had the Cessna 150 freed up and
parked at the gas pump. As she was fueling, I asked her where she was
going. She replied that she was flying her first solo cross-country
that morning. She had that expression of excitement, joy and fear in
her eyes that took me back to that first time of "leaving the nest" as
a pilot. I wished her well, and went on with my unloading. When I
heard her engine fire up, I stepped out and gave her a thumbs up. She
returned the gesture with a big smile.

Later that morning, I flew the Cherokee, on it's way back to the
T-hangars. I did a few steep turns, enjoying the cold smooth air and
clear blue skies. I'd flown a cross-country the day before for a
business trip, so the winter flying itch wasn't biting too bad.

But, reflecting on the day, I am thinking more about the new
beginnings I had witnessed than on my own flight. The middle schoolers
with those freshly planted seeds. Seeds that could grow into a
motivation strong enough to pull a young life towards a brighter
future. A young lady, already with this vision, taking on one of the
first big challenges along that road.

Yesterday I was a witness to the dawn of the next hundred years of
flight. Not a bad way to spend the day.

JP Krievins

[G.R. Patterson III]

In article >, jon
> wrote:
>
> I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> anniversary.

For my part, I decided that attempting to leave the ground with a degree of fever
and coughing my lungs out was not a real good idea. Even if the weather would've
let me off the ground.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

[jon]

David

Very nice pictures..
Your event was great. What a turn out and all of those different types of
planes. Congratulations..

Jon

"David Brooks" > wrote in message
...
> http://groups.msn.com/davidbrooks/paradeofplanes.msnw.
>
> Enjoy. My aging camera has a distinctly blue cast - haven't had time to
> retint the pictures yet.
>
> -- David Brooks
>
> "jon" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Wow this sounds great .. Any pictures ?
> >
> >
> > "David Brooks" > wrote in message
> > ...
> > > We have been *so* fortunate here, in Seattle of all places:
> > > 30005KT 10SM FEW160 SCT250 BKN330 11/05
> > >
> > > The Parade of Planes went ahead with very few problems. 120 local
pilots
> > > signed up (there were a few no-shows). There were 6 speed groups plus
a
> > > formation team flying a circle up to Everett and down to McChord south
> of
> > > Tacoma. Flight A lead reached the dispersal point, abeam BFI, just as
> the
> > > sweep for flight F reported off the ground.
> > >
> > > We started at the Museum of Flight at 9 for briefings, and left for
the
> > > airplane around 11:10 (we had to miss the Flyer's attempt on the big
> > > screen). We got out of the plane about 1:30. In between was lots of
> > meeting
> > > other pilots and their craft, from big warbirds to a pair of
Long-Ezes.
> I
> > > was a passenger in the back of a friend's 206 - we have the same
> > instructor,
> > > who was in the left seat. We were following a Texan and an Archer,
with
> > > another 8 behind us in the group. As far as I could hear, only one
craft
> > had
> > > to leave the parade, a biplane suffering some roughness.
> > >
> > > Enormous kudos to the team from MOF for pulling it together at fairly
> > short
> > > notice, and to the guys at Boeing Tower. We even got a stirring
send-off
> > > from the FSDO guy (who introduced himself as representing the Federal
> > > Anti-Aviation Administration).
> > >
> > > I think I'll make sure I'm in the front seat in December 2103.
> > >
> > > -- David Brooks
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
>

[jon]

Pete

You know, it is very important to set your priorities...
I lucked out and was able to rearrange my schedule to let me fly that day.
Take care.
Jon

"Peter Duniho" > wrote in message
...
> "jon" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> > anniversary. [...]
>
> Nice. I missed flying today, but I got a one-day reprieve on some
pressing
> matters, and I'm hoping to sneak out tomorrow. It will no longer be the
> 17th anywhere in the world, but better late than never, right? :)
>
> We did luck out today and have some great flying weather (which made it
all
> the harder to keep working rather than heading to the airport). I did
> happen to catch several large flights of airplanes doing a parade. I
don't
> know where they started (though I suspect the well-formed flights of RVs
> probably came from Arlington, north of here, where all the homebuilts hang
> out) but it was a lot of fun, and I saw probably 50 airplanes go by in the
> span of about 30 minutes, in a half-dozen different groups.
>
> I'm a little ticked that no one invited me to participate in the parade,
but
> that's probably because I don't spend enough time hanging out with other
> pilots in real life. Gotta do something about that...
>
> Pete
>
>

[jon]

John,

I hardly fly at night and when I did I didn't look at the lights. My wife is
not much of a flyer could I use this to convince her to go up ? Are the
lights visible from the air, is it as good as ground viewing ?
Thanks.

Jon

"jcc" > wrote in message
.. .
>
> "jon" > wrote in message
> ...
> >
> > I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
> > anniversary.
> >
> [snip]
>
> Great flight Jon!
>
> This evening my daughter and I took a short "Centennial Anniversary and
> Christmas Light Viewing Flight" around the Temple area.
>
> I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
> posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
titled
> "Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".
>
> Cheers!
> John Clonts
> Temple, Texas
> N7NZ
>
>
>

[jon]

JP,

Sounds like you had a great day. What you and your wife did for the kids is
fantastic and hopefully will stick with a few of them.

Jon


"JP Krievins" > wrote in message
m...
> in recognition of the centennial of flight, my wife has been teaching
> her middle school level science classes this fall about the Wright
> Brothers and aviation. She teaches at a special purpose school, a
> residential facility for youth with various problems that keep them
> out of the normal public schools. For yesterday, she organized a field
> trip for her kids to our local airport, which has a flight training
> program run by a local college.
>
> I spent the morning helping out with running the kids through the
> activities there. The kids were divided in groups of about five or
> six, taking turns touring the facility, sitting in airplanes, flying
> the simulator, answering Wright Bros trivia questions to "win"
> T-shirts, and flying the paper airplanes they had built inside the
> hangar. Lot's of smiles and "big" eyes from kids that don't have a lot
> to look forward to, particularly in the holiday season.
>
> We ended the morning's activities by launching a rubber band powered
> Wright Flyer model in the hangar. It flew for about 3-4 seconds and 60
> feet, which wasn't too bad (and was better than the full size replica
> did).
>
> I had brought our Cherokee over to the college hangar, and the kids
> were surprised to learn that their teacher had a "real" airplane. I
> think she was a little embarassed to have admit that she didn't fly
> it. Maybe all this aviation stuff she's been teaching will get her
> thinking about moving over to the left seat?
>
> A little prequel to this story. I drove over to the college hangar
> earlier that morning to unload and set up some of the equipment for
> the field trip. The only person there was a young student pilot
> pulling planes out of the hangar, as the sun was coming up in the
> east. I offered her a hand and soon we had the Cessna 150 freed up and
> parked at the gas pump. As she was fueling, I asked her where she was
> going. She replied that she was flying her first solo cross-country
> that morning. She had that expression of excitement, joy and fear in
> her eyes that took me back to that first time of "leaving the nest" as
> a pilot. I wished her well, and went on with my unloading. When I
> heard her engine fire up, I stepped out and gave her a thumbs up. She
> returned the gesture with a big smile.
>
> Later that morning, I flew the Cherokee, on it's way back to the
> T-hangars. I did a few steep turns, enjoying the cold smooth air and
> clear blue skies. I'd flown a cross-country the day before for a
> business trip, so the winter flying itch wasn't biting too bad.
>
> But, reflecting on the day, I am thinking more about the new
> beginnings I had witnessed than on my own flight. The middle schoolers
> with those freshly planted seeds. Seeds that could grow into a
> motivation strong enough to pull a young life towards a brighter
> future. A young lady, already with this vision, taking on one of the
> first big challenges along that road.
>
> Yesterday I was a witness to the dawn of the next hundred years of
> flight. Not a bad way to spend the day.
>
> JP Krievins

[John Clonts]

"jon" > wrote in message
...
> John,
>
> I hardly fly at night and when I did I didn't look at the lights. My wife
is
> not much of a flyer could I use this to convince her to go up ? Are the
> lights visible from the air, is it as good as ground viewing ?
> Thanks.
>
> Jon

Frankly I think most would find the Christmas lights better from the
"automobile view".

It's certainly a interesting and novel perspective from the air. You could
use the aerial view to quickly locate what neighborhoods had the best
concentration of lights. But I think there are a lot of the lights that are
visible at street level which are not from above (e.g. on the fronts of
houses), and there is a much more 3d, "immersive" effect from the street.
From the air its a lot more 2d.

Also, this was from 1000 ft AGL and 100 knots. This kind of sightseeing is
the one thing that makes me kinda miss our old 172. (Flying a C210 now).

Cheers,
John

[John Clonts]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:hbjEb.391036$Dw6.1242578@attbi_s02...
> > I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
> > posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
> titled
> > "Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".
>
> Sadly, it's not appearing on my server's version of "The Binary Channel".
>
> Can you tell us a bit more about this software? I'd like to be able to
> download (and save) my flight track from yesterday, since I doubt I'll
ever
> do 12 airports in 2.5 hours again!

Hello Jay,

www.oziexplorer.com. I'm using the trial or demo version-- its limitations
have not been a factor yet. I don't know if or how well it would get along
with your Avmap. It doesn't specifically list that brand, but it does claim
to work with "others" to a certain degree via the standard NMEA protocol
(which Avmap claims to support as well).

If you find that it does seem to work let me know, I have some tips for
acquiring and calibrating maps I can give you. I've had pretty good success
overlaying tracks onto NOCA approach plates, Kyler's and aeroplanner's
sectionals, yahoo and mapquest street maps, and tiger.census.gov (which I
used here).

Cheers,
John

[Jay Honeck]

Thanks for the info. Although it looks cool, I don't have time to deal with
new software right now.

Thus, it's being filed into the "after the holidays" folder... :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

> If you find that it does seem to work let me know, I have some tips for
> acquiring and calibrating maps I can give you. I've had pretty good
success
> overlaying tracks onto NOCA approach plates, Kyler's and aeroplanner's
> sectionals, yahoo and mapquest street maps, and tiger.census.gov (which I
> used here).

[Peter Duniho]

"jon" > wrote in message
...
> You know, it is very important to set your priorities...

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, especially when there are many other people
relying on carrying out preexisting commitments, somehow as significant
yesterday's anniversary was to us pilots, it still winds up a lower priority
than those other preexisting commitments.

I don't know what your intent was behind the "set your priorities" comment,
but I'm having a hard time understanding what your point might have been, if
not to be unreasonably critical. Others might have expressed some empathy
instead.

Pete

[jon]

Peter,

Have you ever joked with your pilot friends about flying being the most
important priority ? If not I apologize for the misunderstanding. This was a
friendly comment. I had no intent.



"Peter Duniho" > wrote in message
...
> "jon" > wrote in message
> ...
> > You know, it is very important to set your priorities...
>
> Yes, it is. Unfortunately, especially when there are many other people
> relying on carrying out preexisting commitments, somehow as significant
> yesterday's anniversary was to us pilots, it still winds up a lower
priority
> than those other preexisting commitments.
>
> I don't know what your intent was behind the "set your priorities"
comment,
> but I'm having a hard time understanding what your point might have been,
if
> not to be unreasonably critical. Others might have expressed some empathy
> instead.
>
> Pete
>
>