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"Fox Hound" wrote:

I just got finished a 777 Tokyo trip with the most meticulous, cautious
captain I've seen in years.

He and another American pilot recently got caught up in Lakeway's New
Millenium version of a rural southern speedtrap.

My guy landed in daylight, having been giving sightseeing rides to
residents. At about 100 feet on short final, he heard a voice saying
that the airport was closed.

The comment made no sense, and he landed.

Ten minutes or so later, as he walked to his car, a constable pulled up
and issued him a $ 1 , 2 0 0 "citation" for landing after sunset.

Never mind the fact he'd been on the ground for some time: he had no
proof of actual landing time. It became obvious to him, as he
protested this injustice, that he'd uncovered a carefully planned
scheme to defraud hapless visitors to this community.

The general aviation community has no room for sleeze of this nature,
and its pilots need to be made aware that these types of miscreants
have somehow infiltrated our ranks.

Add Lakeway to Crawford as qualifying for the "black magic-marker
treatment" on your Texas sectionals!


If they are going to be such dickheads about it, and there is no FBO there
anyway, why don't they just make it a private airport instead of public use
?


About 20 years ago I was thinking of moving to Austin and checked out
Lakeway. The impression I got was that, if you weren't interested in
tennis, you weren't truly welcome there. Nobody wanted to talk about the
airport and its facilities, so I wrote the place off then and there.

I now live at Spruce Creek (FL) and love it!