Jay Honeck wrote:
You need to start from scratch with that new airport of yours, and that is
hard. It took us a good five years in Iowa City before we got back to the
level of socializing that we were at in our hometown airport.

Pilots are always willing to talk, but they can be hesitant to embrace.
Sometimes it takes a while to break in -- and other times you've just got to
start your own little clique, and go from there.

The problem is that there is literally know one at the airport, a lot of
Saturdays. I'm often the only person with his hangar door open. Don't
get me wrong. I've made friends at the new airport (Ocean City), but the
airport community just doesn't come out and "hang out" on weekends, like
the old days. I've found that this is also the case at a lot of the
smaller GA airports on the Delmarva peninsula. When I drive over to one
of my old airport, near DC, there are occasionally some students flying
with an instructor, but generally, the airport looks like a ghost town.
GA appears to be dying a slow death in the mid-Atlantic states, and it's
making me sick to my stomach to watch it.

--- Jay


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