On Aug 6, 9:12*am, Tony wrote:
On Aug 6, 11:07*am, sisu1a wrote:

Looks like Byron, CA airport might get a reliable house thermal in the
future.http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/article....html?WT.mc_id...

-Paul

is there still a standing NOTAM about loitering in the vicinity of
power plants dams and refineries? *I recall that was pretty typical in
the few years after 2001 but haven't heard much about it lately.

A coal power plant saved one of my longest flights in the Cherokee
once. *That was during the time when that NOTAM was active so I was
quick to leave that thermal as soon as i could make it somewhere else.

There is already a peeker power plant North of Byron in Pittsburg that
has has helped at least one pilot on our rare Sacromento delta
crossings. It's now in several of our waypoint databases. It's just
never been operating at significant load when I've needed it :-(

The NOTAM you are thinking of was probably referring to nuclear power
plants.

Darryl