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Where do you find places to fly?
http://www.brakesoff.com/by_state.php
No guarantees - the site is kind of new, but is improving. Add your own comments about airports you have knowledge of. Thanks! It's pretty sparse right now, but shows promise. I added some info about our place in Iowa City -- we'll see how long it takes to show up... -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993 www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" |
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Where do you find places to fly?
On Jul 8, 4:26 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Here we sit, with a scheduled afternoon off, an airplane full of gas -- and no plans. It's gonna be hotter than blazes, so we don't want to do our "Schmooze the FBO and have a picnic in the grass" thing (that we do when we want to spread the Good Word about our aviation-themed hotel to an airport that doesn't have a restaurant) -- we're gonna need food, preferably in airconditioned comfort. I've usedhttp://www.funplacestofly.com/in the past to find cool stuff to do, and our state website does SOME of this kind of stuff -- but what do you use to find fun places to fly? -- Jay Honeck Iowa City, IA Pathfinder N56993www.AlexisParkInn.com "Your Aviation Destination" A map on the wall and a dart. -Kees |
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Where do you find places to fly?
Jim Burns wrote:
Which airport did you use at Nashville? Last time we were there, we used Smyrna, TN, thinking that BNA would be a madhouse. Jim John Tune JWN Very nice place, fuel not too cheap though. |
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Where do you find places to fly?
On Jul 8, 4:26 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Here we sit, with a scheduled afternoon off, an airplane full of gas -- and no plans. Step 1) Procure large sheet of cork board Step 2) Procure large wall map Step 3) Affix map to cork board Step 4) Throw dart at map Step 5) Go there Some of the most interesting places I've been were due to diversions (ie, not planned). The most interesting one was a few years ago in Goodland, KS. Stopped to take on fuel and wait out some turbulence. Met an OLD fellow hanging around the FBO. I mean REALLY OLD! Like well into his 90's. Struck up a conversation while wife and daughter hit the "powder room", and found he'd learned to fly in the late 1920's. Had been a crop duster in the 1950's after flying cargo in WW2 and then again in Korea. Knew Jimmy Doolittle, Hap Arnold, Eisenhower and a bunch of other historical aviation folks. Four hours and a couple dozen stories later, it was getting onto dark and we had to 'git. I have no idea when the weather had cleared because that was not the focus of my attention. One of the best things about the way we run our business is that, almost exclusively, we stay out of the big metro areas (too much competition). The boondocks, though, have all sorts of intersting stories. -- Matt Barrow Performance Homes, LLC. Cheyenne, WY |
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Where do you find places to fly?
On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:35:54 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote:
And having A/C now makes it more than tolerable. :~) On a day like this, I'm *very* envious. How frustrating to be sweating when I've done nothing stupid to cause it laugh. - Andrew |
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Where do you find places to fly?
"Andrew Gideon" wrote in message news On Sun, 08 Jul 2007 11:35:54 -0700, Matt Barrow wrote: And having A/C now makes it more than tolerable. :~) On a day like this, I'm *very* envious. How frustrating to be sweating when I've done nothing stupid to cause it laugh. - Andrew Well you need to take the GREEN PLEDGE I will (check items that apply): ?? Increase personal use of ethanol derived from grape biomass and various grains and cereals ?? Use more solar energy by taking longer beach vacations ?? Only work Saturday and Sunday, making all other days weekend to reduce driving ?? Open canned sodas slower to reduce rate of CO2 emissions ?? Gain weight - fat people are composed of more carbon than skinny people, thus keeping more carbon out of the environment ?? Reduce CO2-emissions by doing as little exercise as possible ?? Reduce global methane emissions by eating more farm animals ?? Avoid spicy foods to reduce personal emissions ?? Campaign to sequester Congress and the U.N. ?? Recycle environmentalists into biofuels ?? Lobby Congress to fund flying carpet research to replace jet travel ?? Help promote greater fuel efficiency by lobbying Congress to repeal the Law of Gravity Will YOU take the pledge? Downloaded from www.JunkScience.com © 2007 |
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Where do you find places to fly?
On Jul 8, 11:01 pm, Jay Honeck wrote:
Why Quincy? Two reasons: The new restaurant on the field is nice (called "Tailwinds"), and the food was awesome. Quite affordable too -- but just don't be in too much of a hurry. We waited 45 minutes for (what we thought was) pretty basic sandwiches. I'm pretty sure its been called Tailwinds for a long time. At least for the last year since I was up there last.... Let's see.. digging in my log book... UIN, UIN, UIN.. oh my has it been that long? Ok, wow it has been a long time since I went to UIN, lets see over 2 whole years! And the mysterious Russian jet fighters are still sitting on the ramp in Quincy. We haven't been there in a several years, and they are still sitting there, waiting for...a buyer? Who knows? I thought they were "owned?" as part of that maintenance shop right across the ramp from them. The one that usually has an L-39 sitting out front decked out to the 9's. There's a husband and wife that had a huge challenger jet nearby as well. Story I heard from the FBO was that he had his hangar door wired into a garage door opener so he could open it up and taxi in from the cockpit. Brian |
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Where do you find places to fly?
Jack Allison wrote:
Travis Marlatte wrote: I wait for you to post about your trips... Yeah...I wish Jay would do more flying out here on the Left Coast so he could scout out some good spots! :-) It occurred to me that a wiki might be good to collect information about places to fly (similar to Wikipedia). I have been working on and off on setting it up. You can try it out at http://www.aviawiki.com Jay was kind enough to give me permission to use the information he collected about fly in museums, so most of them are now in there. Using a wiki means that anybody can add and edit pages - so if information is incorrect, incomplete etc. you can simply click "Edit" and change it. My general idea was to encourage people to get out and go flying by providing ideas for interesting places to go. Entries are welcome about: - Airports - Flying stories and photos - Aviation museums - Any kind of fly in destination Entries can have latitude/longitude information, which means you can search for other entries within a certain radius. Businesses are welcome to set up a page about their business, as long as they are pilot friendly e.g. Alexis Park Inn & Suites. They should be located at or near an airport, and provide information about how to get there from the airport when arriving by air i.e. no car. A wiki has a few benefits compared to other websites: - Anybody can add or edit information, so if you see something that is incorrect or out of date you can simply click on the Edit tab and change it. A history of each page is kept, so vandalism can be easily removed. - It is very easy to create links to new or existing pages. All you do is surround text with [[ ]] to make it a link. There is a "What links here" function, so from an airport entry you can find other articles eg. trip stories that link to an airport. The website is free. You don't need to register to access it, add or edit content. You do need to register to upload photos, but that is also free and only requires choosing a userid and password. You only need to provide an email address if you want to be able to retrieve your password. Registered users have their own page where they can upload pictures of themselves and their aircraft etc. if they wish. |
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Where do you find places to fly?
("Andrew Rowley" wrote)
It occurred to me that a wiki might be good to collect information about places to fly (similar to Wikipedia). I have been working on and off on setting it up. You can try it out at... http://www.aviawiki.com Very cool....!!! If it remains clutter-free this site will spread like wildfire. Paul-Mont |
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Where do you find places to fly?
"Montblack" wrote:
http://www.aviawiki.com Very cool....!!! If it remains clutter-free this site will spread like wildfire. I hope so. There are various features implemented to try to stop "wikispam", time will tell how effective they are. One of the nice things about using the same software as Wikipedia is most problems will have already been encountered by Wikipedia (particularly problems of scale, spam etc.) -- Andrew Rowley |
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