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Another Long Cross Country: HPN to PAO in 6 Days (long)
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Blair wrote: On Sun, 4 Jun 2006 05:32:45 +0000 (UTC), (John Clear) wrote: Ok, one more. http://www.dr-amy.com/rich/flying/kpao.html has a ton of local knowledge/landmarks for PAO. Like most airports, it has its share of 'weird' local reporting points. Rich is a CFI at my club but I'd never seen that before. Cool site. Wish I had known about it when I was a student. I'm at WVFC too. I came across that site after I'd figured out most of the landmarks from experience. Funny...in my 90 hours of flying, all of which has originated at Palo Alto and includes lots of pattern work during primary training, I have NEVER heard tower refer to the Old Yacht Harbor, Bird House, Spot, Water Treatment Plant, Antenna Farm, Dump, or Cooley Landing. And I've only heard "Duck Pond" a couple of times (usually they'll just say "short final"). I've heard Old Yacht Harbor, Bird House, Antenna Farm, Cooley Landing and Duck Pond. I haven't heard the Water Treatment Plant or Dump used as landmarks. I've been flying out of PAO for ten years, so some of them might not be in current use. I'll have to listen for them and see which they still use. Speaking of the yacht harbor I just read an article about someone in the city govt wanting to initiate a study of resurrecting it. This would require rerouting San Francisquito creek. It was the original rerouting of the creek that spelled the end of the harbor in the first place. Sounds crazy but it actually has merit since the creek needs some major work (e.g. levy improvement) anyways to reduce flooding risk. What kind of tony waterside town doesn't have a yacht club anyways, eh? I think it will take a lot more then rerouting San Francisquito Creek again. At low tide, the bay really is more mud then anything else south of the Dumbarton Bridge. John -- John Clear - http://www.clear-prop.org/ |
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