"bush flying" in the suburbs?

"Judah" wrote in message
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I used to know a helicopter pilot who flew Santa in and out of
a small field in town,

[...]
I guess as the world gets more and more populated, the Reindeer just
don't cut it anymore...

Didn't you hear? He had to switch to something else, 'cause the reindeer
kept burning up from the air friction.

Peter Duniho on Dec 8, 9:05 am wrote:


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"Judah" wrote in message
. ..

I used to know a helicopter pilot who flew Santa in and out of
a small field in town,

[...]

I guess as the world gets more and more populated, the Reindeer just
don't cut it anymore...

Didn't you hear? He had to switch to something else, 'cause the
reindeer
kept burning up from the air friction.
[...]

I guess as the world gets more and more populated, the Reindeer just
don't cut it anymore...

Didn't you hear? He had to switch to something else, 'cause the
reindeer
kept burning up from the air friction.


*** REply ****

I thought it was because the reindeer flatulence was doing in the
ozone.

--

FF

Yes. Santa's sleigh is for sale on ASO! I sent a message asking whether
the red G-suit came with the sleigh, as an 8+1 reindeer powered sleigh has
serious G-forces on take-off. The seller replied:

Thank you for your interest in the sleigh. Since Santa is very busy

this time of year, I'm helping him with the sale of his pre-owned

sleigh.

Excellent question. Mrs. Claus is the sole supplier of Santa's red,

fur lined, soot resistant G-Suit with a built in auto heater. Due

to Santa's ever-increasing waistline (too many cookies), Mrs. Claus

is constantly making new suits for him. As every suit requires a

tremendous amount of labor, she unfortunately would not be able to

supply the sleigh buyer with one. She recommended checking with NASA for a
similar version.

Please let us know if you have any further questions and have a

wonderful holiday season!

Best regards,

The Honorary Elves at ASO

Carl Hixon wrote:



A I R C R A F T S H O P P E R O N L I N E S A L E S L E A D



To: Claus Craft Corporation

Aircraft: 2004 - Santa's Sleigh (SCLAUSE)



From: Carl Hixon

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Purchase Time Frame: 1 - 12 months

Budget Minimum: $0000 Maximum: $50000



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Does the Sleigh come with the red G-suit required to safely pilot an

8+1 reindeer configured sleigh? I am unaware of a private source for

said suit and fear blackout upon takeoff.

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"Judah" wrote in message
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zatatime wrote in
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snip
I used to know a helicopter pilot who flew Santa in and out of
a small field in town,

Cool! I didn't realize Santa had a Chauffer.

I guess as the world gets more and more populated, the Reindeer just
don't cut it anymore...

We have a guy here that has a 1500 pound thing he hangs from his
Jetranger each Christmas. It is Santa in his sleigh and a couple of
reindeer. There's about a thousand lights being run from the generator
bungied to the skids. He flies without any lights on the copter and the
route is published in the paper on Dec 23 each year. His whole flight
takes him a couple hours.




Judah wrote:

zatatime wrote in
:

snip

I used to know a helicopter pilot who flew Santa in and out of
a small field in town,


Cool! I didn't realize Santa had a Chauffer.

I guess as the world gets more and more populated, the Reindeer just
don't cut it anymore...

Where is this? My kids would probably get a big kick out of something like
that...

Newps wrote in news:3N2dnbVgu59cGircRVn-
:

We have a guy here that has a 1500 pound thing he hangs from his
Jetranger each Christmas. It is Santa in his sleigh and a couple of
reindeer. There's about a thousand lights being run from the generator
bungied to the skids. He flies without any lights on the copter and the
route is published in the paper on Dec 23 each year. His whole flight
takes him a couple hours.

KBIL Every Christmas Eve.

Judah wrote:
Where is this? My kids would probably get a big kick out of something like
that...

Newps wrote in news:3N2dnbVgu59cGircRVn-
:


We have a guy here that has a 1500 pound thing he hangs from his
Jetranger each Christmas. It is Santa in his sleigh and a couple of
reindeer. There's about a thousand lights being run from the generator
bungied to the skids. He flies without any lights on the copter and the
route is published in the paper on Dec 23 each year. His whole flight
takes him a couple hours.

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:25:30 GMT, zatatime wrote:

In NJ you can't land anywhere except and approved landing facility,
which puts the kabosh on your plan for this state.

And no water landings, right?

Damian Delgaizo at Andover Flight Academy was planning to put floats
on his Husky (amphibious, presumably). As I understood it, he would
have to do the actual training across the state line in PA!


all the best -- Dan Ford
email: (put Cubdriver in subject line)

Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com
Piper Cub Forum www.pipercubforum.com
the blog www.danford.net

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 05:35:58 -0500, Cub Driver
wrote:

On Tue, 07 Dec 2004 17:25:30 GMT, zatatime wrote:

In NJ you can't land anywhere except and approved landing facility,
which puts the kabosh on your plan for this state.

And no water landings, right?

Damian Delgaizo at Andover Flight Academy was planning to put floats
on his Husky (amphibious, presumably). As I understood it, he would
have to do the actual training across the state line in PA!


This is correct. Damian was going to do this after someone else with
a Lake Amphib left the area. She had to use lakes in PA only as she
could not land on any open water other than designated seaplane bases
like the one on the Hudson.

HTH.
z

(Does Damian use any places to land other than approved landing
facilities for his other program? He'd know enough farmers out there
that he would if he could, and it might shed some light on the
original statement above.)

On Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:51:17 GMT, zatatime wrote:

(Does Damian use any places to land other than approved landing
facilities for his other program? He'd know enough farmers out there
that he would if he could, and it might shed some light on the
original statement above.)

As posted, we landed on private land. It's possible that these private
runways were approved by some authority or other.

One such could have been a farmer's field. The others were regularly
used by their owners as runways, including a strip on a fairly steep
hill.

all the best -- Dan Ford
email: (put Cubdriver in subject line)

Warbird's Forum www.warbirdforum.com
Piper Cub Forum www.pipercubforum.com
the blog www.danford.net

Cub Driver wrote:

As posted, we landed on private land. It's possible that these
private
runways were approved by some authority or other.

One such could have been a farmer's field. The others were regularly
used by their owners as runways, including a strip on a fairly steep
hill.


They might have fallen under the exception(s) alluded to in the
statute:

"except as provided for by the provisions of this
chapter and the rules, regulations and orders adopted
pursuant to this chapter, "
Does anyone know where to look for those?

--

FF