Repaving evicts us from our hangar?

I was curious if anyone else has experienced this... Our airport is
having it's ramp area re-paved. Because of scheduling, they're starting
earlier than expected. 4 buildings of T-hangars have to be out by this
Monday (the 21st). Actually, you have a choice of being tiedown outside
for 2 months, or be trapped inside your hangar for 2 months. My plane
lived outside for a lot of years, but that was considerably inland. My
current airport is on the coast (Ocean City). I hate the idea of
sitting outside for that length of time, within a 1/4 mile of the ocean.
What do you guys think? I'm leaning towards leaving it in the hangar,
and starting some projects that would disable her, anyway.

--

Jay Masino "Home is where My critters are"
http://www.JayMasino.com
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Jay Masino wrote:
I was curious if anyone else has experienced this...

Two years ago, everyone got kicked off a local AIRPORT (not hangar),
because the only runway was being repaved.

B A R R Y wrote:

Jay Masino wrote:
I was curious if anyone else has experienced this...

Two years ago, everyone got kicked off a local AIRPORT (not hangar),
because the only runway was being repaved.

Thats when people start flying off the taxiway...

In article ,
Darrel Toepfer wrote:

B A R R Y wrote:

Jay Masino wrote:
I was curious if anyone else has experienced this...

Two years ago, everyone got kicked off a local AIRPORT (not hangar),
because the only runway was being repaved.

Thats when people start flying off the taxiway...

That's right, only the runway has X's on it.
That's what I used when the runway at the airport where the airplane I
was flying was being reconstructed.
Some people got upset and said it wasn't permitted but couldn't back up
what they were saying with any regulation. The airport manager didn't
complain.

john smith wrote:

Thats when people start flying off the taxiway...

That's right, only the runway has X's on it.
That's what I used when the runway at the airport where the airplane I
was flying was being reconstructed.
Some people got upset and said it wasn't permitted but couldn't back up
what they were saying with any regulation. The airport manager didn't
complain.

For Jay, you now have Runway XX Left and XX Right depending on direction of
travel... Geaux practice on the narrowest paved strips you can find if it
makes you nervous and also do you short field TO/LD till you feel
comfortable...

john smith wrote:

That's right, only the runway has X's on it.
That's what I used when the runway at the airport where the airplane I
was flying was being reconstructed.
Some people got upset and said it wasn't permitted but couldn't back up
what they were saying with any regulation.

At our airport, they backed it up with parked earth moving equipment.

On Thu, 17 May 2007 11:58:22 GMT, B A R R Y
wrote:

john smith wrote:

That's right, only the runway has X's on it.
That's what I used when the runway at the airport where the airplane I
was flying was being reconstructed.
Some people got upset and said it wasn't permitted but couldn't back up
what they were saying with any regulation.

At our airport, they backed it up with parked earth moving equipment.

We've had ramp and taxiway repaving and runway repaving (different
projects)

They told us it might be a month, but they did the taxiways and ramp
in stages. I was out of the hangar for slightly less than a week when
they did one part and only a couple of days when they did the taxiway
right in front of the hangar.

Previous manager got bent out of shape when some pilots landed on one
of the taxiways and reported them. FAA said, "no problem" just try to
do it when he isn't watching." :-)) As we use the grass between the
taxiway and run way on a regular basis with tail draggers, landing on
the taxiway is no problem either...as long as no one is actually using
it as a taxiway at the time.

On 5/16/2007 7:32:44 AM, wrote:

What do you guys think? I'm leaning towards leaving it in the hangar,
and starting some projects that would disable her, anyway.

Now's the time to get that new interior you have always dreamed of.

Tough call, but if you really have big projects that would have kept the
aircraft ground-bound anyhow, may as well use the paving as the excuse to get
it done. Who knows, maybe the paving will be finished early?

--
Peter

On Wed, 16 May 2007 06:32:48 -0500, (Jay Masino)
wrote:

I was curious if anyone else has experienced this... Our airport is
having it's ramp area re-paved. Because of scheduling, they're starting
earlier than expected. 4 buildings of T-hangars have to be out by this
Monday (the 21st). Actually, you have a choice of being tiedown outside
for 2 months, or be trapped inside your hangar for 2 months. My plane
lived outside for a lot of years, but that was considerably inland. My
current airport is on the coast (Ocean City). I hate the idea of
sitting outside for that length of time, within a 1/4 mile of the ocean.
What do you guys think? I'm leaning towards leaving it in the hangar,
and starting some projects that would disable her, anyway.

Happened to me at 3CK (Lake in the Hills, IL) a few years ago. The
paving work was in the middle of summer, and I was faced with the same
choices as you (tiedown, be trapped in the hangar, or go to another
airport).

I was leaning towards the tiedown, but then realized I wanted to get
the plane painted anyway, and the annual was due in 2 months... So I
moved the annual up a month and then had the plane painted afterwards.

-Nathan

I was curious if anyone else has experienced this... Our airport is
having it's ramp area re-paved. Because of scheduling, they're starting
earlier than expected. 4 buildings of T-hangars have to be out by this
Monday (the 21st). Actually, you have a choice of being tiedown outside
for 2 months, or be trapped inside your hangar for 2 months.

TWO MONTHS? Dang.

This same thing happened to us last fall, when the city FINALLY (after
10 years of complaining) repaved the taxiways around our hangars. But
we were only "on the street" for about 2 weeks. What the heck are
they doing for two months?

At the end of this month we're out again, as the city willl be putting
new concrete floors in our T-hangars. Our floor is pea gravel (which
we covered with astroturf years ago, to keep the dust down), and
concrete will be nice -- but it means we have to move EVERYTHING out
of the hangar!

As anyone who has ever visited our hangar knows, that's gonna take a
moving truck to accomplish. Still, it'll only be for about ten
days... And it'll force us to discard a bunch of junk that has
accumulated...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"