Been lurking and understand you're going to check out the new museum at
Dulles...

I lived within about a 10 minute drive of Dulles up until a year ago, and
managed to get to the museum before being transferred back to Canada. It's
a helluva place to go see airplanes. I have a ton of pictures (no website
to post them on). You'll have a great time checking out both the warbirds
and civilian planes they have in their collection.

I expect, and know, that there'll be an apres trip posting, and am looking
forward to your comments.

Jase.


"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
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Well, our upcoming trip to Dulles has been expanded. Weather permitting,
we'll be leaving this coming Wednesday, heading up to Door County, WI,
spending the night there, and proceeding up to Mackinac Island on Thursday
for brunch. From there we ill be heading direct to the Washington, D.C.
area, over the top of the Great Lakes.

It ought to be a beautiful trip!

This routing would mean approaching Washington from the north instead of
the west. I plan to stop short of the ADIZ for lunch, get all of my
ducks in a row with an ADIZ flight plan, and then have a (relatively)
short flight into Dulles from there. (Margy, will arriving on Thursday
work, or do I have to wait till Friday?)

ANYWAY -- it appears that I've got quite a few good choices for
stopping -- but maybe you "local" guys can steer me to the best food?
I've picked a few that are right on my flight plan, but I'm open to
suggestions:

1. Bedford, PA (KMHZ) is just 35 minutes from Dulles.
2. Cumberland, MD (KCBE) is just 30 minutes from Dulles
3. Martinsburg, WV (KMRB) is just 15 minutes from Dulles

Of these three, which would you recommend? Or, alternatively, what's a
better stop?

Also, I have just started researching this ADIZ flight plan stuff. One
fellow who wrote me off-line referred to "VOR gateways" into the ADIZ,
which implies that there are set "routes" via VORs through the ADIZ into
Dulles. Is this correct, or (once I've been assigned a discrete squawk
code and have my ADIZ flight plan activated) can I fly GPS direct from the
point where I enter the ADIZ straight into Dulles?

Thanks for your help!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"