New Plan -- Going to Kill Devil Hills

Airports?
-- Newport News/Williamsburg (PHF), Rick Aviation provides good service.
Lodging and restaurants nearby. Three miles to Yorktown, 8 miles to
Williamsburg, 16 miles to Jamestown
-- Williamsburg (JGG), nice small airport, in the middle of the Historic
Triangle. Nice daytime restaurant on the field. Two miles to Williamsburg.
-- Others on 'southside' (Norfolk [airlines] plus smaller Chesapeake
(CPK), Hampton Roads (PVG), & Suffolk (SFQ)

Going south?
-- stop at Ocracoke (W95); it's a regular for lunch
---- 1/2 mile walk to food at Howard's Pub

Thanks for the tips, George.

We're in Beckley, W.V. as I'm typing this -- nice airport, nice town.
Unfortunately the rental car places at the airport close early on
Sundays, so we had to catch a cab into town -- $35 one way! I thought
I was in Chicago all over again...

Weather is lovely, and the flight was beautiful, 4 hours on the dot.
Had great steaks at a local "Outback" clone, and we're aiming for an
early launch to Kitty Hawk...
--
Jay Honeck
Iowa City, IA
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
Airports?
-- Newport News/Williamsburg (PHF), Rick Aviation provides good service.
Lodging and restaurants nearby. Three miles to Yorktown, 8 miles to
Williamsburg, 16 miles to Jamestown
-- Williamsburg (JGG), nice small airport, in the middle of the Historic
Triangle. Nice daytime restaurant on the field. Two miles to Williamsburg.
-- Others on 'southside' (Norfolk [airlines] plus smaller Chesapeake
(CPK), Hampton Roads (PVG), & Suffolk (SFQ)

Going south?
-- stop at Ocracoke (W95); it's a regular for lunch
---- 1/2 mile walk to food at Howard's Pub

Thanks for the tips, George.

We're in Beckley, W.V. as I'm typing this -- nice airport, nice town.
Unfortunately the rental car places at the airport close early on
Sundays, so we had to catch a cab into town -- $35 one way! I thought
I was in Chicago all over again...

I just took a look at Beckley's aerial view and it appears that there
was an old airport just a couple of miles due west of the existing one.
Maybe it is just two crossed roads, but it looks suspiciously like two
former runways, one which is now a road and the other appears overgrown.

How do you like those hills? A little bit of a change from Iowa, eh?

Matt

How do you like those hills? A little bit of a change from Iowa, eh?

The hills were lovely. Nothing, compared to flying the Rockies -- but
still enough terrain to make it interesting. I would not want to have
an engine failure in that area...
--
Jay Honeck
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"

Jay Honeck wrote:
How do you like those hills? A little bit of a change from Iowa, eh?

The hills were lovely. Nothing, compared to flying the Rockies -- but
still enough terrain to make it interesting. I would not want to have
an engine failure in that area...

Yes, I think of that every flight as I live a couple of hundred miles
north of there, but have similar terrain although the mountains are a
little bigger and the valleys a little wider.

Matt

On 2007-03-10, Jay Honeck wrote:
So, we're looking at heading to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina instead.

If the wind's up any when you arrive at First Flight, be prepared for a
fair bit of turbulence on short final and on departure, and rapidly
shifting winds. Last time I was there (2002), the airfield was in a cut
out in the trees, and since it was reasonably windy, it made for an
interesting approach and landing.

--
Yes, the Reply-To email address is valid.
Oolite-Linux: an Elite tribute: http://oolite-linux.berlios.de

"Dylan Smith" wrote in message
...
On 2007-03-10, Jay Honeck wrote:
So, we're looking at heading to Kitty Hawk, North Carolina instead.

If the wind's up any when you arrive at First Flight, be prepared for a
fair bit of turbulence on short final and on departure, and rapidly
shifting winds. Last time I was there (2002), the airfield was in a cut
out in the trees, and since it was reasonably windy, it made for an
interesting approach and landing.

Indeed. I forgot about that. The wind is usually strong, with a large
crosswind component. The wind will suddenly stop, nearly, at treetop level.
The trees are a dense stand of pine trees, and let very little wind get past
them.
--
Jim in NC

Yep, that's been my experience, too. Especially true landing on runway
2 and when the wind is out of an easterly direction. And I think may
have been the wind for today - but by now I hope Jay already knows about
all this.

Yep, that's been my experience, too. Especially true landing on runway
2 and when the wind is out of an easterly direction. And I think may
have been the wind for today - but by now I hope Jay already knows about
all this.

Yep, we landed on Rwy 2, and it was interesting, even though the wind
was pretty much right down the runway. Very squirrelly winds all the
way down.

And I didn't help myself any by screwing up the approach. Coming from
the NW, that is one HARD airport to see! I actually entered downwind
using my GPS moving map, as I still was unable to see the danged
runway -- although (of course) I *could* see the monument. I didn't
actually see the runway, carved out of those tall trees, until I was
on base leg, and ended up turning to final WAY too late.

I salvaged it, but it wasn't pretty. Heck, until we spotted the
runway, I thought maybe we were supposed to land in the grass at the
foot of the monument!

(Note to self for futu Check out area in GoogleMaps before flying
in... :-)
--
Jay Honeck
North Myrtle Beach, SC
Pathfinder N56993
www.AlexisParkInn.com
"Your Aviation Destination"