You should have read the text of the original message and all would have been clear, rather than automatically hitting “Reply” once you had read just the Subject header.
This isn’t a popularity contest to be won by the person with the largest post count. I, for one, am truly interested in what you might have to say on a given subject. Provided you’ve taken the time to review what’s already been written in a specific thread and what you might add to the subject being discussed.
And I didn’t accuse you of hijacking the thread, it was a general wake-up call.
BTW, as this is a GA Forum, have you contacted your local Civil Air Patrol Squadron as I had suggested a long time ago? Summer’s the perfect season to spend some time on the flight line learning about aviation in general. You can even earn college credit and AP credit with them, either of which would look nice in your transcript when you finally graduate high school and are shopping for a college.
I would love to go and learn that over the summer but time is short around here. Is there something online that would work or not? Sorry for getting hot back there, I went for my 2mile run and I’m more calm and willing to listen instead of being an jerk HR Derby gatta go.
I’m quite excited! My home airport, where my heart will always be, has been featured in the latest issue of Pilot Getaways magazine. As stated way earlier in this thread, Flying W airport (N14) is a very interesting place to visit. I have a lot of memories there, I met my wife there when I was 19, I later became the Assistant Chief Flight Instructor and she the Assistant Airport Manager, so we pretty much ran the place!
Featured numerous times in the magazine (but sadly, not on the cover) are 2 Nanchang CJ6 airplanes, which I have had the pleasure of flying numerous times while doing formation aerobatics and mock dockfighting.
Those of you who are pilots who live in the Northeast, it’s really worth the trip, especially on weekends, when the pool is busy and the live music is playing.
You won’t find me there much anymore, but tell anyone in the ops building that I told them to give you a free pool pass! (You’re on your own for the beer at the tiki bar and the stay at the motel!)
Has anybody ever flown into koxd, and is it a nice airport? I’m just curious because I’ll be flying into there in a week and was wondering if anybody could tell me about it.
One of my favorites has to be SAT. It is an international, but has lots of GA and some Military activity. I like it because the controllers in the area and in the tower are the best. Professional, easy going, and can really keep the traffic flowing. They mix the big boeings with the school traffic and everything in between with minimal delays and no attitude.
I have a love hate with SGR. There is a great tower (lots of ex military for some reason) and runway, but the management has a love hate relationship with piston aircraft.
APA is a lot fun, but very busy, and inconsistent tower. Best part is the on site restaurant and hotel.
GTF and CYBW is where you meet the most famous people. GTF also has the coolest crew car. Called the babe magnet, it’s an AMC eagle wagon with the wood paneling and everything!
Gee, I could keep going, I must like airports or something
TGI, Tangier Island, VA is a neat one. Its a small island in the middle of the Chesapeake. There are no cars on the island, only golf carts, and the locals’ favorite passtime is riding orbits around the island’s single road again and again. Great place to get some seafood.
JAC, Jackson Hole, WY is one of my favorites for the scenery alone. Beautiful.
SLC is kinda interesting, especially at night. My wife needed to do her night tower landings for her commercial certificate so we rented a 172 from 36U, where she worked. (also a cool airport surrounded by mountains). We were using mostly runway 35, which is the GA runway, but tower asked us if we could take 34L for a bit. Taking off of 34L puts you out over the Great Salt Lake so there are NO lights at all for a hundred miles in front of you. Combine that with very dark night, and the reflections on the windscreen from the airport lights behind us and it was very much a disorienting condition. A wake-up call to those who don’t have their instrument rating who fly at night.
ENV, Wendover, UT is also an interesting airport. Situated at the edge of the great Bonneville Salt Flats and ringed by featureless brown mountains on all sides it really feels like you’re on a different planet. (if you ignore the casinos just across the border into Nevada 2 miles away) Also has an interesting history, the airport was used during WWII to train B17, B24 and B29 crews, including the crews of the Enola Gay and Boxscar. The planning and preparation of those aircraft for their top secret mission also occured there. These days only about 10 of the more than 600 buildings remain, giving it a very eerie, historic feeling to it. (ConAir was filmed there too)
My favorite airport these days? Any one who’s FBO has free ice cream or at the very least Otis Spunkmeyer cookies.
My favorite was located in the middle of Chandelier Sound south of Mississippi, on a small barrier island, known as Freeman Island. It was a shell strip, maintained by a St Bernard, LA couple, Margie and Eustis Veazy. Eustis had a tractor for which he foraged gas from pilots and fisherman and in return he maintianed a fleet of skiffes with outboards for the pilots who flew in to fish this Sportman’s Paradise. One of his frequent vistors was Robert Mitchum, who had connections on the Mississippi coast and loved to fish.
Unfortunately all are now gone the strip, Robert Mitchum and the Veazys.
