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GA friendly airports near ELP & AUS
I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R
during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day, so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight. Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks. |
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Not familiar with ELP, but Trajen at AUS is fairly GA friendly.
You might want to try T82 and stay at the Hangar hotel. It is an aviation theme hotel, right on the field, taxi to the hotel in your plane. Also, Fredericksburg is a nice place to visit while you are there. If you are hard IMC, then just head for either SAT or AUS. SAT has a few FBO's for GA. Just was at NEW. Nice folks, and even the millionaire FBO was reasonable and friendly (not that they were unfriendly elsewhere, but you kinda felt outclassed having only 4 seats). Taxi's are generally waiting for you there. Have fun! "ROBIN FLY" wrote in message ... I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day, so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight. Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks. |
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I usually stop at West Texas airport. It's a little east of the big
airport in El Paso. Nice old guy who runs it and the fuel prices are pretty good. They also have autofuel if you desire it. Not much for resturants or hotels, just a nice place for a quick stop and fuel. Dave Dude wrote: Not familiar with ELP, but Trajen at AUS is fairly GA friendly. You might want to try T82 and stay at the Hangar hotel. It is an aviation theme hotel, right on the field, taxi to the hotel in your plane. Also, Fredericksburg is a nice place to visit while you are there. If you are hard IMC, then just head for either SAT or AUS. SAT has a few FBO's for GA. Just was at NEW. Nice folks, and even the millionaire FBO was reasonable and friendly (not that they were unfriendly elsewhere, but you kinda felt outclassed having only 4 seats). Taxi's are generally waiting for you there. Have fun! "ROBIN FLY" wrote in message ... I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day, so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight. Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks. |
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I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much
needed R&R during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day, so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight. Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks. Go to Georgetown to the north or San Marcos to the south instead of KAUS. |
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I always stop in Las Cruces, NM on the Socal to Texas route, which is pretty
close to ELP. One of the FBO's has a restaurant, Adventure Aviation, I think it is called. "ROBIN FLY" wrote in message ... I am planning a flight from Los Angeles to New Orleans for some much needed R&R during holidays. My wife does not like to fly more than two 4-hour legs a day, so my plan is to fly from EMT to ELP for fuel & lunch than to AUS overnight. Next morning we continue to NEW. For return trip, we will stop at AUS for fuel & lunch and ELP overnight. However, both AUS & ELP are big airports that I have never been to. Are they GA friendly? Can you recommend some GA friendly airports in their areas for overnight stop? Thanks. |
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Scott D. wrote in message . ..
If you havnt flown into ELP, watch out and make sure that you are not lined up on the wrong airport out there. There is an AFB that sits real close to the airport and the runways are exactly the same, I hear people lining up wrong all the time. snip It's Biggs Army Airfield (KBIF) at Fort Bliss. Their runway 3/21 is about 2 miles north of ELP's runway 4/22. Before the days when everyone had a GPS on their yoke, it was fairly common for KBIF to greet an unscheduled civilian arrival. John Galban=====N4BQ (PA28-180) |
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