Michael Nickolas wrote:
comments about 9B1 snipped
: Yeah. And questionable on getting out of there on a hot summer day
: with full fuel and a couple passengers. Any reason you don't keep your
: plane at 6B6 (Stow)? It's closer, no? How long a ride is it for you to
: Mansfield?

I believe that Stow and Mansfield would take me about the same time to
drive there. To Mansfield, it's a 30-minute drive all on highways.
To Stow, it's a 30-minute drive, almost all on back roads.
When we were having a disagreement with the airport management at Mansfield,
I was considering moving to Stow. I would really like to be based somewhere
with an ILS, but Hanscom is to obnoxious and Worcester is too far and
always has terrible weather.

Other reasons: I learned to fly at Mansfield, and I have a lot of friends
who fly out of there. Also, Providence is only a 15-minute flight, and
is my alternate when IFR. Providence is open all night, has an ILS in every
direction, and has a 24-hour rental car establishment that has come in
handy on a couple occasions.
Stow seems to have the highest gas prices around, and doesn't have the
cross runway (Mansfield has a nice grass cross runway).
Sadly, Mansfield lost its coffee shop a couple years ago. Stow has a really
nice restaurtant.
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Aaron Coolidge (N9376J)