"Grumman-581" wrote:


Flying to Houston to see the folks.

Haven't made up my mind if I'll land at Sugar Land or Hobby. Hobby is
closer to Mom's and has more ILS approaches, but Sugar Land has fewer
ground
hassles and spam cans don't get vectors all over the county to get
there.

I used to have my plane based out of Hobby... It's not that bad of an
airport for GA... I was based over on the south side of the airport at
FletchAir and it was usually a short taxi to a midfield 12R (at Kilo) or
04
(at Juliet) for takeoff... Landings usually ended with a turnoff at Kilo
from 12R or 12L, from Hotel on 18/35, or from Juliet or Mike on 04/22...
The
way the weather has been lately, you probably won't need an ILS approach
anyway...

Traffic near SGR sucks due to road construction if you are heading south
on
TX-6... Seems that there always is a train at the intersection of TX-6 and
US-90 every time I go that way... Another option might be AXH... I base my
plane there... There's also Manvel (nice grass strip) and Pearland... If
you
are renting a car, some of the airports are going to be easier to arrange
that at than others...


Cheapest fuel at HOU: $4.22. Fuel at SGR: $3.58.

Even when I cancel IFR early, I always get a bunch of vectors going into
HOU. And at Wilson (used to be Fletcher), there's only one choice of rent
car companies and security gates to deal with.

Going into SGR, I can take a pretty straight shot VFR under the south shelf
of the Class B. SGR has any kind of rent car you want and it's easy to
drive out of.

That Hwy 6 traffic can be tough, though.

--
Dan
C172RG at BFM