Holiday plans?

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Any plans on flying somewhere for the holidays?

Nope -- we're gonna leave Montblack in peace this Thanksgiving...


Hey, we're old pros at it now! However...

5-day (VFR) weather forecast looks iffy starting Thanksgiving Day, thru
next weekend. This next 5 days look good, though ...so, come up early. Stay
late if need be. Beat the MOA rush. Visit the Water Park of America this
time. Take a day to see frozen dead people at the Science Museum of
Minnesota. Park your plane in an available (warm?) hangar ...this time. And
lest we forget, mmmm ...grazing at "Old Country Barf-et".

You could even see ..."The Full Monty" :-)
(Bloomington Civic Theatre - striking the set after the last show, tomorrow
afternoon)

http://www.smm.org/bodyworlds/about/
Science Museum of Minnesota - Body Worlds

http://www.bloomingtoncivictheatre.org/
The Full Monty - Closing Sunday the 19th.

http://www.waterparkofamerica.com/
Water Park of America (Why are all water park sites set up this way? Why?
Why?)


Montblack

In article ,
"Montblack" wrote:

Beat the MOA rush.

Please do not mix you TLA's between usegroups.
MOA (aviation usage)... Military Operations Area
MOA (ground mode)... Mall of America
(MoA might be acceptable)

In article .com,
wrote:

Jim Burns wrote:
Any plans on flying somewhere for the holidays?
Jim

I'll be flying a Cutlass (172 RG) from Denver to West Palm Beach, FL in
December with my brother. Should take roughly 11 hrs each way, and I'm
planning on at least 2 days for each leg. It's going to be a great
experience, and should get me close to my comm time requirements.

Are you landing KPBI?
Which FBO do you plan to use?
I have used both Galaxy and Signature in the last three years.
I prefer Signature.
I have received tremendously better service as a single-engine piston
pilot!

No, I was going to LNA, but the weekly tie-downs are actually cheaper
at F45 (and it's closer to where I want to go anyway - Jupiter).

Thanks for the tips though... I used Galaxy up at SUA once when I had
a weather divert. They were pretty nice, but mind blowingly expensive
for everything.

john smith wrote:
In article ,
"Montblack" wrote:

Beat the MOA rush.

Please do not mix you TLA's between usegroups.
MOA (aviation usage)... Military Operations Area
MOA (ground mode)... Mall of America
(MoA might be acceptable)
Hmmm, can MontBlack drive the airplane of minivans through an (aviation
usage) MOA? But...never through the (ground mode) MoA. Sure, park *at*
the MoA...but please Paul, we beg you, we don't want to read about you
on the news. :-)


--
Jack Allison
PP-ASEL-Instrument Airplane

"To become a Jedi knight, you must master a single force. To become
a private pilot you must strive to master four of them"
- Rod Machado

(Remove the obvious from address to reply via e-mail)

Beat the MOA rush.

Please do not mix you TLA's between usegroups.
MOA (aviation usage)... Military Operations Area
MOA (ground mode)... Mall of America
(MoA might be acceptable)
Hmmm, can MontBlack drive the airplane of minivans through an (aviation
usage) MOA? But...never through the (ground mode) MoA. Sure, park *at*
the MoA...but please Paul, we beg you, we don't want to read about you
on the news. :-)

In five days, the MoA will become the site of more real battles than any
MOA. So if you are in the MoA within the next four days, yes, you will
beat the rush.

In five days, the MoA will become the site of more real battles than any
MOA. So if you are in the MoA within the next four days, yes, you will
beat the rush.

Actually, last year, during our Thanksgiving visit to Mr. & Mrs.
Montblack, we did the unthinkable: We braved the MoA on the day before
Turkey Day!

We were very surprised to find it busy, but not crazy. I was, quite
frankly, expecting a shopping conflagration of epic proportions, and
was actually a little disappointed that there weren't hordes of
blue-haired old ladies beating each other with canes to get at the
sale-priced support hose...

Of course, the crowds may have been dampened a bit by the snow that was
falling...although, you would THINK Minnesotans would be used to the
white stuff.

:-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

("Jay Honeck" wrote)
Actually, last year, during our Thanksgiving visit to Mr. & Mrs.
Montblack, we did the unthinkable: We braved the MoA on the day before
Turkey Day!


You flew the family up to Minnesota ON Thanksgiving Day.

The M#% was the day AFTER Thanksgiving.


Montblack :-)
This year we're serving .....potato.

"Jay Honeck" wrote

Actually, last year, during our Thanksgiving visit to Mr. & Mrs.
Montblack, we did the unthinkable: We braved the MoA on the day before
Turkey Day!

We were very surprised to find it busy, but not crazy. I was, quite
frankly, expecting a shopping conflagration of epic proportions, and
was actually a little disappointed that there weren't hordes of
blue-haired old ladies beating each other with canes to get at the
sale-priced support hose...

Of course, the crowds may have been dampened a bit by the snow that was
falling...although, you would THINK Minnesotans would be used to the
white stuff.

Ahhh, grasshopper. You were two days early, to see the beginning of the real
battles. Shopping as a form of war does not commence until the wee hours of the
day _after_ Thanksgiving!

Then the carnage begins.
--
Jim in NC

Ahhh, grasshopper. You were two days early, to see the beginning of the real
battles. Shopping as a form of war does not commence until the wee hours of the
day _after_ Thanksgiving!

Then the carnage begins.

Of course, Montblack is right. We were there the day AFTER
Thanksgiving, as he stated. And things were under control, amazingly.

Not like the lunatics that are camped out at our Best Buy, awaiting the
PlayStation 3. Those dudes are CRAZY.
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"