Sun N Fun '07 Redux

Matt Whiting wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:

No problem. I'll give T-shirts away at my forum this year to any
female willing to take her shirt off and put mine on during the
forum ... on stage.



Even if she has two shirts on? :-)

Damned you Matt, you blew my plan!!!

Margy


Well, it is still a good plan and you have Jim's word on it! :-)

Matt
Ok, when's the forum?

Margy (I need a new shirt!)

"john smith" wrote in message
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In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

Interesting bringing up Kermit Weeks. Mary and I tried to find our
way to his nearby "Fantasy of Flight" museum during the week, and were
astounded to find that there was NO shuttle bus from the SNF grounds
to his museum. NONE.

That's quite a ways away.
Fantasy of Flight is southwest of Disney World.
That's on the west side of Orlando.
That's about 60 miles away.
Not really a shuttle ride away.

It is about 22 miles from Lakeland Linder to Fantasy of Flight by road (per
mapquest). I didn't realize how close it was until Sunday. I flew over to
Winter Haven from SnF on Sunday morning. Winter Haven is nautical NE of
Lakeland Linder. There I picked up a buddy and gave him a good ride in the
RV. About 10 miles NNW of Winter Haven, I saw a Lockheed Constellation out
in the middle of a grass field, which caused me to do a double take... I'd
accidentally found Fantasy of Flight from the air...

KB

"Kyle Boatright" wrote in message
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"john smith" wrote in message
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In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

Interesting bringing up Kermit Weeks. Mary and I tried to find our
way to his nearby "Fantasy of Flight" museum during the week, and were
astounded to find that there was NO shuttle bus from the SNF grounds
to his museum. NONE.

That's quite a ways away.
Fantasy of Flight is southwest of Disney World.
That's on the west side of Orlando.
That's about 60 miles away.
Not really a shuttle ride away.

It is about 22 miles from Lakeland Linder to Fantasy of Flight by road
(per mapquest). I didn't realize how close it was until Sunday. I flew
over to Winter Haven from SnF on Sunday morning. Winter Haven is

18 nautical miles NE of


Lakeland Linder. There I picked up a buddy and gave him a good ride in the
RV. About 10 miles NNW of Winter Haven, I saw a Lockheed Constellation
out in the middle of a grass field, which caused me to do a double take...
I'd accidentally found Fantasy of Flight from the air...

KB


KB

"Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote:

I wasn't there this year, but one other other item for the good list was
that Marion Blakey didn't show up. I finally got my Ku band satellite
receiver set up to receive the transmissions from the FAA Production
Studios there, and I caught the "Meet the FAA" session. They said she
had an international travel schedule conflict. (Uh. Ya, right.)

Care to share the details on your configuration (satellite, channel,
schedule, etc.)? I'd seen a listing about this previously and inquired at a
Wings event but they didn't have any details. I'd like to digitize them for
future hosting on a website...

Margy Natalie wrote:
Matt Whiting wrote:
Margy Natalie wrote:

Matt Whiting wrote:

RST Engineering wrote:

No problem. I'll give T-shirts away at my forum this year to any
female willing to take her shirt off and put mine on during the
forum ... on stage.



Even if she has two shirts on? :-)

Damned you Matt, you blew my plan!!!

Margy


Well, it is still a good plan and you have Jim's word on it! :-)

Matt
Ok, when's the forum?

Margy (I need a new shirt!)

Why? You already have at least two! :-)

Matt

I agree with the missing butter theory. On the Saturday right before SnF,
Kermit Week's hosted a Mustang's and Mustang's show and Fantasy of Flight.
didn't go but I flew over the field. There were thousands of people there.
The parking lot looked full. The ramp area was packed with both P-51s and
Fords.

Interesting that you bring up Kermit Weeks and the "Fantasy of Flight"
museum. Mary and I tried to find a shuttle from the SNF grounds to
the "F-of-F" museum -- and there simply wasn't one! We asked at the
"transportation center" (where all the buses pick-up) and the
volunteers there just shrugged their shoulders...

This, to me, signals loud and clear that there is some VERY bad blood
between the two organizations. Here they've got thousands of pilots
and planes at SNF, just a few miles from F-of-F, and NO ONE thought to
provide a shuttle bus over to the museum? Not!

Somebody peed in somebody's Wheaties...

Judging by the P-51 turnout at F-of-F, and what you related, above,
obviously Kermit Weeks is more "plugged into" the warbird community
than the SNF organizers.

I find it so sad -- and frustrating -- that aviation is so fractured
like this. Despite being a TINY minority, it always seems that we
aviators always self-segregate themselves into even tinier sub-groups.
Often those sub-groups can't seem to get along with each other.

It's sad, and it's why we continually lose the public relations
battles with the anti-aviation crowd.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Darrel,

The FAA transmissions are on satellite AMC-3, 87 deg West, Transponder
18, Vertical polarity, 12055 Mhz, s/r 3.020 MSPSm FEC 3/4, Video PID 33,
Audio PID 36, PCR PID 33

Here's where I got that information http://www.floridaaviationnetwork.com/

They have information that says they are on Dish Network channel 9411.
They also have a web stream in Windows Media format.

The program schedule is he
http://www.faaproductionstudios.com/...%202006-07.pdf

You'll need a receiver for MPEG/DVB transmissions. My situation was
that I had a older C/Ku band receiver for watching TV. I put a MPEG/DVB
receiver card in a nearby PC and split the signal from the satellite
blocking the DC power. I still use the original system for positioning
the dish and powering the amplifier on the dish. Instead of the card,
there are separate receiver units like this:
http://www.pansatusa.com/product/receiver-2500AM.htm

Paul

Darrel Toepfer wrote:

Care to share the details on your configuration (satellite, channel,
schedule, etc.)? I'd seen a listing about this previously and inquired at a
Wings event but they didn't have any details. I'd like to digitize them for
future hosting on a website...

"Paul Dow (Remove Caps in mail address)" wrote:

Darrel,

The FAA transmissions are on satellite AMC-3, 87 deg West, Transponder
18, Vertical polarity, 12055 Mhz, s/r 3.020 MSPSm FEC 3/4, Video PID
33, Audio PID 36, PCR PID 33

Many thanks, Paul...

In article .com, Jay Honeck
says...

Mary and I just returned from 6 glorious days at Sun N Fun in
Lakeland, FL, where we enjoyed the most amazingly perfect weather I
have ever seen at such an event. The nights were cool (almost cold
the first few nights) -- perfect for sleeping -- and the days were
sunny and warm. No humidity, no bugs, no alligators -- just lots and
lots of aircraft!

It was a nice show altho' little windy at times. I stayed in the U/L -Light
Sport plane area most of the time. Got to visit with Vicki Cruse for an hr or so
as well as with Walt Troyer,Frank Hitlaw and Tim Kirns.
My $100.00 reward for a zoom sighting went unclaimed and I didn't even see any
ANN stringers in my area .Usually I know a couple and they stop and say Hi.

Started a new distributer in Argentina and one in Peru. So all and all it was a
good show for me (CGS). The B-2 was awesome! the Muzzle loader tasty,only one
confirmed kill and 4 or 5 probables,our 25th anniversary party for the CGS Hawk
went great,the U/L party on sat. was a hoot with 2 members of the female
persuasion flashing the band for beads. Had that happen years ago when I played
in a rock band but never at SnF:-)I probably shouldn't have said anything now
next year all you guys will show up with cameras :-)

I want to publicly thank Lou Ann ,Harley,Laura and the rest of the Florida gang
that made my 25th anniversary of the CGS Hawk such a success.The decorations
were great and the food was outstanding thanks loads to each and every one of
you.

Chuck S

In article ,
john smith wrote:

In article . com,
Jay Honeck wrote:

Interesting bringing up Kermit Weeks. Mary and I tried to find our
way to his nearby "Fantasy of Flight" museum during the week, and were
astounded to find that there was NO shuttle bus from the SNF grounds
to his museum. NONE.

That's quite a ways away.
Fantasy of Flight is southwest of Disney World.
That's on the west side of Orlando.
That's about 60 miles away.
Not really a shuttle ride away.

It is just about 8 miles NE of SnF, on I-4. I overfly it enroute to to
the initial point for the "powerplant arrival."