Woo-hoo! 3 Cheers for AOPA!

[Jay Honeck]

We (and Iowa City) got a really nice write up by Fly Guide's Nick Selby
today in AOPA!

For AOPA members (and who, here, isn't?) see
http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/iowa_city.html

For non-AOPA members (and you know who you are!), see a mirror of the
article on our website at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aopa's_review.htm

Nick did a terrific (and very, VERY thorough) job of writing about all the
unusual and fabulous things that are going on in our very "un-Iowa-ish"
community.

We've been getting emails and calls all day long, and -- BEST OF ALL -- our
airport commission and manager have forwarded this article to our City
Councilmembers. You know -- those folks who think our airport is nothing
but a drain on the taxpayers?

:-)

Thank you, AOPA!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Rip]

Jay and Mary, that's great! Nice job, and a nice article. Makes me want
to fly out to Iowa just for a weekend visit!

Jay Honeck wrote:
> We (and Iowa City) got a really nice write up by Fly Guide's Nick Selby
> today in AOPA!
>
> For AOPA members (and who, here, isn't?) see
> http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/iowa_city.html
>
> For non-AOPA members (and you know who you are!), see a mirror of the
> article on our website at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aopa's_review.htm
>
> Nick did a terrific (and very, VERY thorough) job of writing about all the
> unusual and fabulous things that are going on in our very "un-Iowa-ish"
> community.
>
> We've been getting emails and calls all day long, and -- BEST OF ALL -- our
> airport commission and manager have forwarded this article to our City
> Councilmembers. You know -- those folks who think our airport is nothing
> but a drain on the taxpayers?
>
> :-)
>
> Thank you, AOPA!

[G.R. Patterson III]

Jay Honeck wrote:
>
> Thank you, AOPA!

Maybe that do-nothing AOPA rep at the airport was actually doing something after all?
If so, he seems to have come through in spades this time.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

[NW_PILOT]

Congrats, on the write up. I hope to visit the hotel one day my question is
do you let us keep the towls?


>"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:Wd2Dc.94994$2i5.11844@attbi_s52...
> We (and Iowa City) got a really nice write up by Fly Guide's Nick Selby
> today in AOPA!
>
> For AOPA members (and who, here, isn't?) see
> http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/iowa_city.html
>
> For non-AOPA members (and you know who you are!), see a mirror of the
> article on our website at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aopa's_review.htm
>
> Nick did a terrific (and very, VERY thorough) job of writing about all the
> unusual and fabulous things that are going on in our very "un-Iowa-ish"
> community.
>
> We've been getting emails and calls all day long, and -- BEST OF ALL --
our
> airport commission and manager have forwarded this article to our City
> Councilmembers. You know -- those folks who think our airport is nothing
> but a drain on the taxpayers?
>
> :-)
>
> Thank you, AOPA!
> --
> Jay Honeck
> Iowa City, IA
> Pathfinder N56993
> www.AlexisParkInn.com
> "Your Aviation Destination"
>
>

[Rip]

Careful, George. I'm the AOPA rep at our local airport (Danbury, CT),
and I'm constantly at work "behind the scenes". Politics, like elephant
gestation, takes many months.

G.R. Patterson III wrote:
>
> Jay Honeck wrote:
>
>>Thank you, AOPA!
>
>
> Maybe that do-nothing AOPA rep at the airport was actually doing something after all?
> If so, he seems to have come through in spades this time.
>
> George Patterson
> None of us is as dumb as all of us.

[zatatime]

He wasn't getting on AOPA reps, but rather refering to a previous post
made by Jay. I almost did the same thing, but was worried someone
wouldn't see the jesting nature of the comment, as happened here.

Nothing personal was meant, I don't believe.

z

On Sat, 26 Jun 2004 02:43:23 GMT, Rip
> wrote:

>Careful, George. I'm the AOPA rep at our local airport (Danbury, CT),
>and I'm constantly at work "behind the scenes". Politics, like elephant
>gestation, takes many months.
>
>G.R. Patterson III wrote:
>>
>> Jay Honeck wrote:
>>
>>>Thank you, AOPA!
>>
>>
>> Maybe that do-nothing AOPA rep at the airport was actually doing something after all?
>> If so, he seems to have come through in spades this time.
>>
>> George Patterson
>> None of us is as dumb as all of us.

[Jay Honeck]

> Careful, George. I'm the AOPA rep at our local airport (Danbury, CT),
> and I'm constantly at work "behind the scenes". Politics, like elephant
> gestation, takes many months.

Take no offense, Rip. George is referring to OUR truly "do-nothing" AOPA
rep here in Iowa City -- an airline pilot whom I have never met in over 7
years of daily life on the field.

In fact, yesterday I found out that he LIVES IN MINNEAPOLIS. Our AOPA rep
is a guy who (a) only wants the title for his resume, (b) none of us has
ever seen at a single meeting, and (c) refuses to quit the position, in the
face of overwhelming local opposition to his position.

Sadly, in the face of (c), AOPA will not remove him, and thus we are left
with no representation from AOPA while we find ourselves in the fight for
our lives here in Iowa City.

And, no, George -- that guy had absolutely, positively NOTHING to do with
this article -- guaranteed.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jay Honeck]

> Congrats, on the write up. I hope to visit the hotel one day my question
is
> do you let us keep the towls?

Well, I'm not sure what a "towl" is -- but if I can find any, you can keep
all you want!

;-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[G. Burkhart]

"Jay Honeck" > wrote in message
news:AM5Dc.156275$3x.143562@attbi_s54...
> > Congrats, on the write up. I hope to visit the hotel one day my question
> is
> > do you let us keep the towls?
>
> Well, I'm not sure what a "towl" is -- but if I can find any, you can keep
> all you want!
>
> ;-)

Watch what you say, Jay. You may lose your "towels" too... ;-)

It's a West Coast thing??? http://www.pacificdrygoods.com/

[G.R. Patterson III]

zatatime wrote:
>
> He wasn't getting on AOPA reps, but rather refering to a previous post
> made by Jay. I almost did the same thing, but was worried someone
> wouldn't see the jesting nature of the comment, as happened here.

Exactly right.

George Patterson
None of us is as dumb as all of us.

[Bob Fry]

"Jay Honeck" > writes:

> And, no, George -- that guy had absolutely, positively NOTHING to do with
> this article -- guaranteed.

Our AOPA airport rep was also useless in OUR fight a couple of years
ago to save our airport.

In fact, worse than useless, because to make himself look like a
bigshot he fed the AOPA a load of rumors and legends about the airport
and its history, which they published in AOPA Pilot. If the owners of
the airport--a large university system in a large, left-coast
state--had seen that published nonsense they would have laughed our
airport group out of town.

[Eduardo Kaftanski]

In article >,
Rip > wrote:
>Jay and Mary, that's great! Nice job, and a nice article. Makes me want
>to fly out to Iowa just for a weekend visit!
>

it makes me want to the US just to visit!




Jay Honeck wrote:
>> We (and Iowa City) got a really nice write up by Fly Guide's Nick Selby
>> today in AOPA!
>>
>> For AOPA members (and who, here, isn't?) see
>> http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/iowa_city.html
>>
>> For non-AOPA members (and you know who you are!), see a mirror of the
>> article on our website at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aopa's_review.htm
>>
>> Nick did a terrific (and very, VERY thorough) job of writing about all the
>> unusual and fabulous things that are going on in our very "un-Iowa-ish"
>> community.
>>
>> We've been getting emails and calls all day long, and -- BEST OF ALL -- our
>> airport commission and manager have forwarded this article to our City
>> Councilmembers. You know -- those folks who think our airport is nothing
>> but a drain on the taxpayers?
>>
>> :-)
>>
>> Thank you, AOPA!
>


--
Eduardo Kaftanski |
| Freedom's just another word
http://e.nn.cl | for nothing left to loose.
|

[Eduardo Kaftanski]

In article >,
Rip > wrote:
>Jay and Mary, that's great! Nice job, and a nice article. Makes me want
>to fly out to Iowa just for a weekend visit!
>

It makes me want to travel all the way to the US to visit!

--
Eduardo Kaftanski |
| Freedom's just another word
http://e.nn.cl | for nothing left to loose.
|

[Roger Halstead]

On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 23:06:31 GMT, "Jay Honeck"
> wrote:

>We (and Iowa City) got a really nice write up by Fly Guide's Nick Selby
>today in AOPA!
>
>For AOPA members (and who, here, isn't?) see
>http://www.aopa.org/members/files/pilot/postcards/iowa_city.html

Congratulations and nice write up Jay.

We didn't have a rep when our battle started, but we have one now and
he was one of those really active in fighting for the airport.

An interesting side note, the airport commission did a financial
impact study that showed our small airport had about a $10 million
impact on the local economy. This brought cries of foul, and down
right derision so the opponents commissioned their own study. Its
results? We have a $16 million impact instead of $10 million.

The state of Michigan has a film using us as an example on how to
fight those who want to close the airports.

Roger Halstead (K8RI & ARRL life member)
(N833R, S# CD-2 Worlds oldest Debonair)
www.rogerhalstead.com

>
>For non-AOPA members (and you know who you are!), see a mirror of the
>article on our website at http://www.alexisparkinn.com/aopa's_review.htm
>
>Nick did a terrific (and very, VERY thorough) job of writing about all the
>unusual and fabulous things that are going on in our very "un-Iowa-ish"
>community.
>
>We've been getting emails and calls all day long, and -- BEST OF ALL -- our
>airport commission and manager have forwarded this article to our City
>Councilmembers. You know -- those folks who think our airport is nothing
>but a drain on the taxpayers?
>
>:-)
>
>Thank you, AOPA!

[Jay Honeck]

> An interesting side note, the airport commission did a financial
> impact study that showed our small airport had about a $10 million
> impact on the local economy. This brought cries of foul, and down
> right derision so the opponents commissioned their own study. Its
> results? We have a $16 million impact instead of $10 million.

Remember, our City Council has taken an ominous (and politically brilliant)
new tack. They are no longer "against" the airport -- they are now trying
to take direct control of the airport (from the independent airport
commission) in an effort to "help" it!

They don't want to "harm" the airport -- they want to be on the "same team"
as the airport -- and they see (and are portraying) the airport commission
as an "obstacle" to this change.

This little twist is going to make fighting this change MUCH harder, since
voters in any referendum have about a 5-second attention span. As soon as
they hear "the council is trying to help the airport" they are going to tune
out everything we might say about "future problems" due to this action...

I have to tip my hat to them -- I didn't expect such an intelligently
planned attack.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

[Jack Allison]

Great article Jay. Glad to hear the town getting some good press. I hope
this helps score some points for the airport and it's contribution to the
local economy.

--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL, IA Student

"When once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the Earth
with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there
you will always long to return"
- Leonardo Da Vinci

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