How I celebrated the Anniversary

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...

In article , jon
wrote:

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

Believe it or not..

A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.


"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...

In article , jon
wrote:

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned
to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking
very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New
York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the
aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.

In article , jon
wrote:

Believe it or not..

A good pilot friend of mine reminded me of this fact when I was making up
the list. And it is also part of Suffolk county.


"Tom Fleischman" wrote in message
rthlink.net...
Fisher's Island is on Long Island???

News to me...

Not that it's not a nice place to land...



Well, it may be in New York State, and it may be a part of Suffolk
County, but it is definately NOT on Long Island!

A lovely destination though, and I'll bet that was a GREAT flight -

In article , jon
wrote:

I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

For my part, I decided that attempting to leave the ground with a degree of fever
and coughing my lungs out was not a real good idea. Even if the weather would've
let me off the ground.

George Patterson
Great discoveries are not announced with "Eureka!". What's usually said is
"Hummmmm... That's interesting...."

jon ) wrote:

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
New York in a round robin flight.
snip

Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email indicates?

VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?

I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.



--
Peter












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Thanks Peter it was very cool to go into those 2 airports.

Vfr to both..
At Kennedy I originally asked to land taxi back and depart I figured they
would bill me for the landing fee $25.
But they needed me to land and go to the GA terminal and pay there. It
actually added to the experience.

Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
have no problem.

Jon

"Peter R." wrote in message
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jon ) wrote:

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in
New York in a round robin flight.
snip

Excellent tribute! What were you flying? A Tiger, as your email
indicates?

VFR or IFR in to La Guardia and Kennedy? Touch and Go or Full stop?

I was curious how these busy airports deal with GA.



--
Peter












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On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:01 -0500, "jon"
wrote:

Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
have no problem.

That seems steep. Aren't there times of the day when it's much cheaper
to land at LGA?

Rob

I had thought it was going to be $150 so I was somewhat happy. I think I
read that after 9:00 pm it was cheaper.
This was only a landing fee, Signature didn't charge me any handling or ramp
fees.
Jon

"Rob Perkins" wrote in message
...
On Wed, 17 Dec 2003 17:09:01 -0500, "jon"
wrote:

Departed JFK rwy 31 left climbed to 1400' slight right turn direct to the
numbers of lga rwy 31. Landing fee $114
If you can communicate on the radio and follow their directions you would
have no problem.

That seems steep. Aren't there times of the day when it's much cheaper
to land at LGA?

Rob

Lucky you. I have freezing rain here in Montreal, Qc. There goes my plan.

TD

"jon" wrote in message ...
I returned a few hours ago from my flight to celebrate the 100th
anniversary.

A few years ago I had an idea for a flight I wanted to take but never
motivated to do it.
Thanks in a good part to a post in rec.piloting asking what was planned to
celebrate the anniversary.
I thought to do it on the 17th. With the weather in New York looking very
bad for tomorrow I took the flight today.

Today I landed at all 11 public paved airports on Long Island in New York in
a round robin flight.

Islip
Farmingdale
Kennedy Intl
La Guardia
Mattituck
Fishers Island
Montauk
East Hampton
West Hampton ( Gabreski )
Spadaro ( east moriches )
Brookhaven
Islip

It was a fun day of flying and a tribute and a Thank You to all the aviators
and people of
aviation who have made it possible for me to FLY !!

Jon G.