How I celebrated the Anniversary

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

Nice. I missed flying today, but I got a one-day reprieve on some pressing
matters, and I'm hoping to sneak out tomorrow. It will no longer be the
17th anywhere in the world, but better late than never, right?

We did luck out today and have some great flying weather (which made it all
the harder to keep working rather than heading to the airport). I did
happen to catch several large flights of airplanes doing a parade. I don't
know where they started (though I suspect the well-formed flights of RVs
probably came from Arlington, north of here, where all the homebuilts hang
out) but it was a lot of fun, and I saw probably 50 airplanes go by in the
span of about 30 minutes, in a half-dozen different groups.

I'm a little ticked that no one invited me to participate in the parade, but
that's probably because I don't spend enough time hanging out with other
pilots in real life. Gotta do something about that...

Pete

Pete

You know, it is very important to set your priorities...
I lucked out and was able to rearrange my schedule to let me fly that day.
Take care.
Jon

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

Nice. I missed flying today, but I got a one-day reprieve on some
pressing
matters, and I'm hoping to sneak out tomorrow. It will no longer be the
17th anywhere in the world, but better late than never, right?

We did luck out today and have some great flying weather (which made it
all
the harder to keep working rather than heading to the airport). I did
happen to catch several large flights of airplanes doing a parade. I
don't
know where they started (though I suspect the well-formed flights of RVs
probably came from Arlington, north of here, where all the homebuilts hang
out) but it was a lot of fun, and I saw probably 50 airplanes go by in the
span of about 30 minutes, in a half-dozen different groups.

I'm a little ticked that no one invited me to participate in the parade,
but
that's probably because I don't spend enough time hanging out with other
pilots in real life. Gotta do something about that...

Pete

"jon" wrote in message
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You know, it is very important to set your priorities...

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, especially when there are many other people
relying on carrying out preexisting commitments, somehow as significant
yesterday's anniversary was to us pilots, it still winds up a lower priority
than those other preexisting commitments.

I don't know what your intent was behind the "set your priorities" comment,
but I'm having a hard time understanding what your point might have been, if
not to be unreasonably critical. Others might have expressed some empathy
instead.

Pete

Peter,

Have you ever joked with your pilot friends about flying being the most
important priority ? If not I apologize for the misunderstanding. This was a
friendly comment. I had no intent.



"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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"jon" wrote in message
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You know, it is very important to set your priorities...

Yes, it is. Unfortunately, especially when there are many other people
relying on carrying out preexisting commitments, somehow as significant
yesterday's anniversary was to us pilots, it still winds up a lower
priority
than those other preexisting commitments.

I don't know what your intent was behind the "set your priorities"
comment,
but I'm having a hard time understanding what your point might have been,
if
not to be unreasonably critical. Others might have expressed some empathy
instead.

Pete

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

I flew in a formation flight around the Okanagan Valley. It was filmed
by 7 TV cameras - now I'm waiting for the news to see how it looked.
I do know that it wasn't too pretty - most of the guys hadn't flown
formation before. For safety it was VERY loose - now I'll get the
chance to see how it looked from the ground.
--

Tony Roberts
PP-ASEL
VFR OTT
Night
Almost Instrument
Cessna 172H C-GICE

Sounds like a very cool way to commemorate the Wrights' achievement. I
couldn't get out to the airport until late this afternoon due to business
obligations, but managed to drag the 150 out and catch the sunset from
aloft. There were several pilots on the CTAF returning to home base at the
time, and one called out "Thanks, Orville. Thanks, Wilbur." I had to agree.
Beautiful sunset, smooth air, good visibility. If only I hadn't had to
return so quickly . . .

I might add that I felt somewhat compelled to fly today, since I recently
found out that Orville and I share a birthday (August 19th).

Steve DeMoss
N16071

"jon" wrote in message
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(snip)
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.

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

[snip]

Great flight Jon!

This evening my daughter and I took a short "Centennial Anniversary and
Christmas Light Viewing Flight" around the Temple area.

I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation titled
"Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".

Cheers!
John Clonts
Temple, Texas
N7NZ

I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
titled
"Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".

Sadly, it's not appearing on my server's version of "The Binary Channel".

Can you tell us a bit more about this software? I'd like to be able to
download (and save) my flight track from yesterday, since I doubt I'll ever
do 12 airports in 2.5 hours again!
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"
"jcc" wrote in message
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"Jay Honeck" wrote in message
news:hbjEb.391036$Dw6.1242578@attbi_s02...
I've recently gotten OziExplorer to work with my Airmap 100, so I have
posted an image of the flight track on alt.binaries.pictures.aviation
titled
"Centennial Anniversary, Christmas Light Viewing Flight".

Sadly, it's not appearing on my server's version of "The Binary Channel".

Can you tell us a bit more about this software? I'd like to be able to
download (and save) my flight track from yesterday, since I doubt I'll
ever
do 12 airports in 2.5 hours again!

Hello Jay,

www.oziexplorer.com. I'm using the trial or demo version-- its limitations
have not been a factor yet. I don't know if or how well it would get along
with your Avmap. It doesn't specifically list that brand, but it does claim
to work with "others" to a certain degree via the standard NMEA protocol
(which Avmap claims to support as well).

If you find that it does seem to work let me know, I have some tips for
acquiring and calibrating maps I can give you. I've had pretty good success
overlaying tracks onto NOCA approach plates, Kyler's and aeroplanner's
sectionals, yahoo and mapquest street maps, and tiger.census.gov (which I
used here).

Cheers,
John

Thanks for the info. Although it looks cool, I don't have time to deal with
new software right now.

Thus, it's being filed into the "after the holidays" folder... :-)
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

If you find that it does seem to work let me know, I have some tips for
acquiring and calibrating maps I can give you. I've had pretty good
success
overlaying tracks onto NOCA approach plates, Kyler's and aeroplanner's
sectionals, yahoo and mapquest street maps, and tiger.census.gov (which I
used here).